Shabbat/Holidays
There is an Israeli folk tale about how the sufganiya, the ubiquitous Chanukah doughnut, got its name.
Variations on the Chanukah Theme was originally delivered as a sermon by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm during Chanukah 1958 (5718)…
Misconception: It is ideal to hold the lulav (along with the hadasim and aravot) and the etrog together in one…
With Rosh Hashanah approaching, we asked leading thinkers and educators to share with us their favorite books or seforim they…
During the 1800s, the sending of greeting cards for all sorts of occasions, mostly in the form of postcards,…
In Brooklyn’s heavily Orthodox, increasingly Chassidic Boro Park neighborhood, the sound of the shofar, blaring out of open synagogue windows…
A sort of culture has emerged, predominant at least in the yeshivah world, which defines the month of Elul as…
Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial I am writing this article while seated on a train in Poland, traveling between Warsaw…
Dear__________, You ask me why a normal person, one who has the option of living either in the United States…
I don’t believe in self-esteem. That is, I don’t believe in the way the self-esteem movement promotes the idea that…
Q: I’m so tired of potatoes for every side dish on Pesach. What are other options if I don’t eat…
