The news that the novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford died on Sunday, at the age of 91, brought me right back to the library my family frequented when I was a kid, where her fat, pastel-colored paperbacks preened from the carousels to the right of the

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When Amichai Lau-Lavie was ordained a rabbi, in 2016, he joined a family tradition that had been going on uninterrupted since the 11th century. And yet this had been a fraught process for Lau-Lavie, an Israel-born gay man who just a few years before