Topic “Religion”

By Katy Waldman (Slate)

The case of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise brings up an interesting question: What happens when divorced parents have irreconcilable religious differences?

A statement from Holmes’ lawyer last week requested privacy when it came to the pair’s 6-year-old daughter, Suri, who may now be pulled between her father’s Scientology and her mother’s...

By Simone Zarmati Diament (MCT)

As Rosh Hashana approaches, its foods, its rituals are steeped in memories of a childhood from another century, another age in which every occasion was a pretext for games and wonderful food.


For my Sephardic grandmother in Cairo and the two-score relatives who gathered around her table every Rosh Hashana — the first of the...