Shabbat/Holidays
What are my options for getting a cup of coffee at work on Pesach? Can I use the office coffee…
Many of us think that because we can’t have bread, rice, pasta or grains on Pesach, we need to offer…
Before we light the Shabbos candles, she puts my hair up into a braid: / She pulls the chestnut sections…
Imagine the moadim (holidays) as a circle beginning with Pesach in Nissan and ending with Purim in Adar. If the…
By Joel M. Schreiber The ancient tree stood in the yard, Its leaves a withered gray, Its arms bare of…
I was dreaming . . . If only I had an opportunity to think, really just sit and think, without…
Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, better known as the Maharil, lived in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in…
your February bar mitzvah like every bar mitzvah took place on the first day of Succos
though through serrated holes of branched schach above this temporary haven I espy milky vapor trial
Another year—and another Rosh Hashanah—is upon us. Last year, we all made resolutions to change and, in many cases, we…
“Of course a person should do teshuvah, but I am a bit puzzled. I observe Shabbos, I keep kosher and…
