By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Religion and sex: it can be difficult to separate the two because many people’s attitudes about appropriate sexual behavior were informed by their religious education. However, as Noam Sachs Zion notes in the impressive “Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jew…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Readers are often curious about whether characters in a novel are based on real life people. That’s why most novels’ reverse title page (the page that contains copyright information and details about the publisher) usually feature statements such as “this is a…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
Fairfield University will hold the virtual event “”A History of Holocaust T…
By Bill Simons
Perhaps no player in the history of basketball has garnered as many important awards as Jewish-American superstar Sue Byrd. She has dominated her sport in high school, collegiate, World Cup, Olympic, EuroLeague and Women’s National Basketball Association competition. D…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Untangling three generations of a complex family history: that’s the reason Alexander Wolff moved to Germany for a year in 2017. He wanted to understand the lives of two men: his grandfather Kurt Wolff and his father Niko Wolff. The German-Jewish Kurt, whose g…
