It can be cliché to call someone a pioneer, but for American film director, writer, and producer Susan Seidelman, it’s true. In her memoir, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About […]
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This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. This article was originally published Tuesday night and updated […]
At the beginning, I thought maybe to tell my friends to leave, but at that point, it was already too late. They’re shooting and trying to kidnap us or kill […]
To most of the world, the date is the October 7. To me it will always be Simchat Torah. The memory of the juxtaposition of the joyful singing and dancing […]
The thing about honey is, it isn’t simple like sugar. Cultivating sugar cane requires a great deal of effort, tending to the fields in blazing heat, processing and extracting the […]
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Got a question? Fill out this form to submit your anonymous question to be answered in a future column. Dear Miriam, Right before my son’s wedding this past weekend, I […]
I got the nickname, Holocaust Girl, back in college. Little did they—the poetry department mean girls—know, instead of feeling insulted and ridiculed, as they had hoped, I loved the designation. […]