It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.