Even families that move away for one reason or another always come back to attend a Springfield simchah.
The invitation came as a surprise to Kirschner. “Growing up, I never saw myself as a leader and never sought out leadership positions.”
Despite my overwhelmingly positive Jewish involvements, choosing a Torah life was the most wrenching decision of my life. I feared the constraints of so many mitzvot, even of losing my…
Hershcovich is doing what a growing number of other Orthodox Jews are doing on this social media platform: mining humor from the excesses, peculiarities and ironies that abound in Orthodox life.
The hallmark of a Jew should be expressing hakarat hatov on a regular basis, and if we fail to do this for the teachers who work so hard to educate…
In the mikvah’s waiting room, I am engrossed as I watch my dear friend Jenna, clad in a long robe, face the rabbis who have overseen her geirut…
It is 1:15 AM on Seder night. My fatigue is settling in, along with the brisket. . . .
