Jewish World
Though centuries have passed since Rambam served as a guiding light for the Jewish people, he remains one of the…
When Eli Genauer reads an old cookbook, it’s not for the recipes. Like a detective on the hunt, Genauer searches…
Stardom and the rise of the “celebrity chef” have created a place for chefs in modern society on par with…
Many assume Torah Judaism came to these shores in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This is not only historically false,…
I’m named after Jacob, my grandfather, who was named after Yaakov Bienenfeld, the patriarch of this family and my great-great-grandfather…
When I was growing up, small farms still existed in Boro Park. I remember there were goats and chickens. It…
When my parents, Peretz and Annie Scheinerman, lived in Washington, DC [in the early part of the twentieth century], you…
It’s a fallacy to say that Orthodox Judaism in America existed only from the 1940s onward. My grandchildren mark six…
Many of the books on the history of American Orthodoxy include the names Bruder, Weberman, Fensterheim and Jacobs. These families…
The story is told of a visitor to the Netherlands who was given a lengthy tour of that nation’s extensive…
My great-grandfather, Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) Cohn, was a Kohen. He left Germany because they had strict laws against Jews…
