Today my father would have been 100 years old— a staggering thought, not only because of the weight a century bears, but because his...

Nearly a year ago, a fourteen-year-old embroideress from Portugal in the early 17th century took up residence in the deep reservoir of...

Am Shalom and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center host Even in Darkness for two events!

Thursday, September 24, Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch 7 PM. "Barbara will discuss the intricacies and challenges of writing...

Not everyone wants to write a novel, but it seems as if everybody’s got that box full of old photos, bundles of letters, birth...

Ellen Cassedy’s memoir We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust charts her journey to her family’s past and her own reckoning...

“Good writing can flip the way the world is perceived,” states Steven Pinker, experimental psychologist and world famous writer on...