Burned by the fallout from its perceived endorsement of John Roberts’ Supreme Court nomination this summer, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is playing it safer on Judge Samuel Alito.
When I was a small child in Houston, my mother would come to school every year to teach about Chanukah. Armed with her guitar, wax-encrusted menorah, dreidels and box of latkes mix, my mother (laying her New York accent on a little thicker than usual) gave my Christian classmates a brief recap of the Maccabee […]
Ruth Gruber, author of 17 books, many with a Jewish theme, knows that it takes a long time for even veteran writers to have a book published in this country. It took 70 years for her 18th to appear here.”Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman,” recently issued by Carroll & Graf Publishers, […]
