I I am a baptized Jew. And none of this was by choice. We don’t ask to be born or to whom, nevertheless, I was born a Jew. My mother was not Jewish by birth. In fact, her background was about the furthest you could get from Jewishness. Alice Comer Lide – Lide is thought to be the anglicization of the Welsh surname – was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1932, the youngest of four sisters. Her father was a country doctor, and her grandfather a Baptist minister. Her ancestry

The final entry in Anne Silverman's series on bridging the gap between people with opposite political views.

The beginning of Rabbi Burt Aaron Siegel's lifelong Jewish journey.

Our Passover/Easter meal was a success. The food was good, we all laughed a lot; and yet sometimes the best of intentions can go awry.

Rabbi Burt takes a moment to discuss suffering and our relationship to the suffering of others.