Exodus, The

This skirt has always managed to come with me, from home to home and move to move. I hadn't been able to give it away in the past. It represented the size that I used to be, the size that I tell myself I'll be again...

I told my son about how -- as if in an over-the-top horror movie -- the television screen showed another plane hitting the Pentagon. The Pentagon... the place Nancy's husband Scott had gone to work that bright, clear morning...

The thing we hate most about clichés is the fact that they are so often true, especially the ones we wish were the opposite of the truth. There’s an old saying, “It is easier to take a Jew out of exile than to take the sense of exile out of the Jew” . . .

We may have left Egypt and still be there.

I remember the day in September of 1989 when I walked out of my home in Saratov into the unknown future.

Right now, chances are you are struggling with something; we all have our pain points. When you plug your current struggle into a framework, you have a path and a way forward.

Why name a child "Bitter"? Why wallow in bitterness—wouldn’t that only serve to demoralize her and her loved ones?

Enslaved, Caged, Imprisoned, A people bound to their G-d, Frightened, anxious, laboring oppression Beaten, diminished, dehumanized, degraded; Daring diversity, dis-similar from the lot…

It’s not enough to look and be beautiful. YOU have to see your OWN beauty.