Women are finally mensches — at least, according to the 2014 Mensch of the Month Calendar. This is the third year that the San Francisco-based calendar of “chosen but not taken” Jewish singles has ...

“Dean is a mensch.” That’s what my fourth-grade Hebrew School teacher wrote at the bottom of my report card, and my mother was overjoyed. In fact, in all my years of academic achievement — graduating ...

Bay Area sportscaster Barry Tompkins sits in a restaurant on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, in Fairfax, Calif. He began his career in San Francisco in 1965 and has worked for HBO and Fox Sports Net. He is ...

Our middle son just graduated elementary school. Whether we are watching high schoolers go to college, sitting at weddings, experiencing the birth of grandchildren or nieces and nephews, or witnessing ...

Pictured (left to right standing) Dan Rothblatt, EVP, Jewish Community Foundation; Marvin Schotland, President & CEO, Jewish Community Foundation; David Nimmer; Mel Wacks; Nancy Mishkin; Bruce Rosen; ...

Last week, when I met with colleagues from the American Camp Association and the YMCA camping network, we discussed the powerful outcomes of a summer camp experience: building confidence, compassion, ...

Mensch is a Yiddish word meaning a person of honor and integrity, but in Fresno it is also an acronym for Men Eating, Noshing, Schmoozing, Curbing Hunger. The Mensches, all members of Temple Beth ...

A mensch is a person of integrity and honor. Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation in Metairie will honor nine of them at its “Mensches and Merriment” gala at 6 p.m. Nov. 5. The nine are being ...

Just a couple of showbiz big shots, Mike Nichols and Tony Kushner, who stuck to their guns and created an epic merger of comedy, tragedy, history and conscience that gave no ground, that gave America ...

"Be a mensch," my parents told me. Literally, a mensch is a person. But by implication, a mensch is an upstanding person who takes responsibility for his actions. The people now running America aren't ...

When Cody Decker, third base for Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic qualifier being played in Brooklyn, and formerly of the San Diego Padres, ceremoniously placed the iconic “Mensch on a Bench” ...

On the day that American bombs began dropping on Iraq in March 2003, The New York Times’ Dexter Filkins sped On the day that American bombs began dropping on Iraq in March 2003, The New York Times’ ...