It is Friday afternoon, two hours before Shabbat. I am preparing salmon in my Jerusalem studio apartment, listening to a recorded lecture on my computer

In its heyday, the eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side echoed with the footsteps of thousands of worshipers, from the famous—scientist Jonas

When my son was a newborn, I had imagined myself his custodian in the years ahead, picking up after him, feeding him, buying larger pants