Ideas What an obituary writer learned by saying goodbye to hundreds of people “I wanted to do right by their families, and leave a historical record ensuring that their full lives, and not just their passing, were recorded and remembered.”
Ideas My Solomon Schechter school embodied a bygone American, Zionist and New York Jewish dream A historian remembers the Conservative day school in Queens as it drops the Schechter name and becomes Orthodox.
Ideas The Borscht Belt hotels were cornerstones of Jewish family life that have no real replacement A Jewish nonprofit executive argues for a contemporary successor to the Catskills, where families can be together in a low-key way.