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Robert Nagler Miller

Robert Nagler Miller

Robert Nagler Miller is a writer and editor who lives in New York. When he is not working, Robert enjoys reading, Scrabble, Spelling Bee and crosswords and, with his husband, traveling, exploring Jewish history and culture, and going to museums and the theater.

"Esther Denouncing Haman" by Ernest Normand, 1888. 
The Heritage Foundation's Project Esther incorrectly references the Book of Esther as part of the Torah. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inTheater

New Lehrhaus class will unpack opera’s fixation on Biblical tales

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller December 18, 2024December 18, 2024

From Venetian artist Tintoretto’s 16-century painting “Esther Before Ahasuerus” to filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille’s 20th century epic “The Ten Commandments,” the Hebrew Bible has long inspired Western culture.  So, too, […]

Nicki Green art
Posted inArt

Trans and Jewish identities meld in new CJM show

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 6, 2024September 6, 2024
The Reuven family, seen here in New York, decided to spend a year traveling after Stav's death.
Posted inBay Area

Suicide prevention a priority for grieving South Bay family, where youth depression is common

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
Some of Lisa Liss' students pose as the container of bandages is loaded onto a truck for LA.
Posted inEducation

Museum of Tolerance displays ‘Bandage Project,’ Sacramento students’ effort to honor 1.5 million children of Holocaust

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller March 8, 2022
Howard Mortman is the author of "When Rabbis Bless Congress"
Posted inBooks

New book: Meet the 441 rabbis of the U.S. Congress

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 21, 2021October 22, 2021
Wilderness Torah Rosh Hashanah celebration at Camp Newman, September 2021. (Photo/Darren Miller)
Posted inUncategorized

Wilderness Torah, Camp Newman collaborate to build Center for Earth-Based Judaism

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 17, 2021September 20, 2021
The author (on his mother’s lap) with the family in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1948.
Posted inBooks

New memoir: Grieving his mother while the towers were falling

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 9, 2021
Defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.  (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Stanford begins work on massive digital archive of Nuremberg documents

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller April 22, 2021April 22, 2021
Jerome Cobert on duty at the Berkeley Marina in 1999.
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: A Jewish former cop whose mother finally came around

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 26, 2020October 26, 2020
Stephanie Lepp
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Q&A: Her podcast highlights stories of self-transformation

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller October 6, 2020

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