My mother was a master at the art of friendship. I learned so much from watching her be completely present, intertwined and fully engaged with her friends. She even went so far as to take on the ...

Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns ...

German Jew, Catholic nun, Holocaust victim, saint. Reconsiderations of early-twentieth-century German Jewry are now fashionable. German Jews of this period were once portrayed by scholars as naive and ...