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 on her father’s...

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our beloved founder and Rabbi Emeritus, Rabbi Burt Siegel, passed away peacefully on the evening of July 20th.

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