04/09/2013 | | Staff Writer | A New York Minute

Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean, research scholars in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington are the lead editors of the center’s planned seven-volume “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos in Nazi Germany and Nazi-Dominated Territories, 1933-45.” Research began 13 years ago, and the first volume was published in 2009.

04/09/2013 | | Special To The Jewish Week | All She Wrote

In the tiny German village where she grew up, Rivka Weinstein was known as Cathrin. She played in the meadows and prayed in a church.

04/09/2013 | | Travel Writer | Travel

The group at the next table is chattering away in something that sounds like German, but maybe it’s not. Swiss-Deutsch?

04/05/2013 | | Jewish Week Online Columnist | Reform Really

As some of my readers may remember, I am getting married later this month. I feel so lucky to have met my soulmate, and our relationship gets stronger and stronger as the months pass. And, though I’ve officiated at dozens and dozens of weddings, I find myself feeling as though we are creating the whole thing from scratch. I guess I expected myself to be an expert on all things wedding, but I’ve learned the lesson that you are probably all anticipating: it’s always different when it is your own event!

04/05/2013 | | Jewish Week Online Columnist | A Rabbi's World

It is an unusual day indeed when The New York Times, not always considered sensitive to the concerns of the Jewish community, publishes a front-page obituary for a rabbi. But the Times did just that a few short weeks ago, when it noted, with appropriate pathos and respect, the death of Rabbi Hershel Schacter, of blessed memory.

04/05/2013 | | Online Jewish Week Columnist | The Nosh Pit

I can only assume you've had your fill of matza for about the next year.... I know I have. So to celebrate the return to everything flour and yeast-filled, I present to you a recipe for a rich, indulgent chocolate babka - also known as a chocolate yeast cake.