Above is a photo of Leah and Charlie in their matching onesies at the Christmas Eve party we went to at Kendall’s mom’s last night. For all my anti-holiday yammering in years past, I secretly love Christmas and most of what it stands for. I...

  I guess that title is misleadingly provocative, but both the movie star and the concentration camp were on my mind all weekend. The Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones died on Friday at the age of 90. On the same day, the famous iron sign reading...

  My son is descended from a long line of ultra-orthodox Jews. I wonder what his ancestors from the shtetls of Poland would think of his latest performance as the Baby Jesus? Oh, relax…while I considered going whole hog and creating a life-sized...

  I am the perfect theatergoer. I love the theatre so much that give me a talented cast of actors and a decent script and I am more than willing to be transported to any place or time period in this or any other world. By contrast, I’d never make...

  Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day celebration commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after it was trashed by the armies of Syrian King Antiochus in the 2nd century B.C. The Maccabees, a Jewish rebel...