A Boy's Bar Mitzvah Coat from Bukhara

This mirror was found in the Moringa burial cave at En Gedi; its tang would have been fitted into a handle, now missing, made of metal, ivory, or bone (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved…

The parting was not long in coming. My father died two months before I turned six. To this day, I go to him at difficult times. Mostly to complain that he abandoned me. The handful of memories that he…