Hopes and dreams aren’t always realities; neither are realities always present in hopes and dreams. I’ve found out both are truly truths since moving here to our community’s Legacy Midtown…

January — this first month of this newest of our new years — was named long ago for the Roman god Janus, who had the unique ability to look backward…

So here we are, closing the final pages of yet another bygone year. I do so literally, with a book: “The World of Paul Crume,” a late, much beloved columnist…

I’ve held on to this very-yellowed strip of newsprint for more than a dozen years, hoping for a proper opportunity to pass it along. And today’s political climate seems just…

If you don’t already know about this, you should mark your calendars NOW for the 29th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Jewish Comedy. In the West Coast’s Bay Area, this is…

I have no way of knowing how many of you may be on the email distribution list of American Friends of the Museum of the Jewish People in New York…

From the TJP archive, a favorite Hanukkah column from Harriet Gross in 2011 Paraphrasing an old carol of the season: “Hanukkah’s a-comin’, the goose is getting fat ... ” Well,…

The other day, I received a flyer in the mail, inviting me to “Escape to Enchantment” by taking a fall visit to New Mexico. My memory turned back quickly to…

I’m reading a most unusual book whose title might inspire you (but perhaps even offend you); it is “100 Jewish Things to Do Before You Die.” But please don’t let…

As I write this, I’m thinking of my mother, wondering if she suffered the same “agonies”: happy anticipation with a good measure of fear as she awaited my arrival for…