It was my mom's birthday the other day. She died 14 years ago of cancer. She would have been 74 years old. Every year I scan my bookshelves for her copy of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" written by ...

Peters, professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at NYU and author of The Children of Abraham, lucidly explains how Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities understand and interact with their ...

A recent fire at a synagogue here created damage estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the damage to the shul’s library of about 2,000 holy books cannot be so easily tabulated. The ...

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