By Harriet P. Gross I’m in Israel while you’re reading this! No, I haven’t written a column here and sent it by e-mail for virtually instantaneous inclusion in today’s paper.…

By Harriet P. Gross Sometimes there are contests for naming things, with great cash prizes or at least some recognition. And sometimes there are non-contests, when people put out a…

By Harriet P. Gross A local Holocaust hero is about to become a local area Hometown Hero as well! Next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., Clarice Tinsley, a Fox News (Channel…

By Harriet P. Gross You’re tired, so you sit down for a while. Then when you’re rested, you stand up and get moving again. Well, the Dallas Holocaust Museum is…

By Harriet P. Gross This is an only-in-America story, something to reflect on in the month marking the 42nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s assassination: Alysa Stanton, the…

By Harriet P. Gross Today we sit squarely between Yom HaShoah and Israeli Memorial and Independence Days. The last two are certainly not unrelated to the first. Without the Holocaust,…

By Harriet P. Gross I often tell both Jews and Christians that this time of year, the conjunction of Passover and Easter, is the closest our faiths ever come to…

By Harriet P. Gross It’s time to think about matzah — I mean, really think about it. What it stands for. We don’t have to think too hard, because Yehiel…

By Harriet P. Gross Ironies abound. Very recently, our daily paper’s classical music reviewer scored the Dallas Opera’s announcement of its forthcoming season: Nothing new there, he noted — and…

By Harriet P. Gross I’ve just finished reading a book I’d like to talk with you about. It’s a memoir called “The Rabbi’s Daughter.” I hated it! Yet the story…