Las bourekas (pasteles rellenos y salados) y la shakshuka (huevos cocinados en salsa de tomate picante) son las comidas favoritas de algunos judíos, mientras que los knishes (pasteles rellenos de puré…
Imagina descubrir que el hombre que te crio no es tu padre biológico. Que la raza de tu madre es diferente a la que ella presentaba. Que la persona que te atrae es tu hermano. Que eres descendiente de…
Cuando la biblioteca cerró hace casi tres meses, saqué prestados ocho libros. Terminé dos. Es inusual para alguien que lee en todas partes: en las filas de las cajas, en el metro, en el Dodger Stadium…
Antes de Barack Obama, Hiram Revels y Shirley Chisholm ayudaron a gobernar la nación. William Wells Brown escribió una novela antes que Toni Morrison. Phillis Wheatley publicó poemas antes que…
Trabajan en Watts, Chicago, Oakland y Harlem, pasan sus vacaciones en Provincetown, Massachusetts, y regresan a su hogar en Otis, Carolina del Sur (5000 habitantes). Entre ellos se encuentran un…
If you could find out how long you're going to live, would you want to have that information? If you knew you'd die in fourteen years, would you still marry or have children? Would you tell your parents?
What if the person you're dating snoops and breaks up with you...
Lydia Rosen’s inane chatter about bourekas during the flight to Israel baffles Matt Greene. To his partner, Daniel Rosen, his mother’s preoccupation with the stuffed pastry makes total sense. “She’s trying not to have to imagine how much of her son’s body has been blown to bits,” he explains. But...
For as long as anyone can remember, a caravan of gypsy traders provides the Jews of Kreskol with their only connection to the outside world. Situated in a remote part of a forest in Poland, the town was inexplicably overlooked by the Nazis, and has retained the traditions of eastern...
A facetious question posed by an NPR radio host lured me into reading Steve Young’s memoir, QB: My Life Behind the Spiral. Did the pro football Hall of Famer receive special treatment at Brigham Young University where he played quarterback because he is the great-great-great grandson of Brigham Young?With outstanding...
When U.S. soldiers died during the First World War, their relatives were given the choice to have the remains shipped home or buried in an American cemetery in Europe. A lobbying movement on behalf of those who selected overseas interment resulted in Congress financing close to 7000 pilgrimages for mothers...
