My friend's father wrapped both hands around his coffee mug before he spoke. He was 50 years old and had never told the story of liberating the concentration camps. A tough longshoreman who had toiled ...

‘It was a spiritual memory that cannot be described in any other form of memory. She never forgot her prayers, her faith nor the people that formed her...’ Kate Fassbender poses with her grandmother, ...

A crisis. A horror. A tragedy. All words we’ve heard many times over to describe the situation in Gaza. All woefully insufficient. As a Palestinian, I can assure you if there’s one thing Palestinians ...

There are reasons why poetry moves us. Masters of the written word convey feelings and emotions using only a few words, managing to deeply connect souls. What is most remarkable about this way of ...

After a loved one's death, the author struggled to find the right words when informing friends and family. Many people avoid contact with the grieving out of fear of saying the wrong thing, but this ...

The title for this recording evokes Hans Christian Andersen’s commentary on the power of music: “Where words fail, music speaks.” Words indeed fail here, and this instrumental album reflects on the ...