Shabbat/Holidays
Answering the questions of non-Jewish guests poised expectantly around my Shabbos table has forced me to examine and re-examine its…
Jewish Week reporter Steve Lipman sent more than a few shockwaves through the Orthodox world with his recent article on…
Here’s a title for a book someone should write, with a nod to Robert Fulghum’s bestseller in praise of kindergarten:…
As a volunteer leader of Seders in small Jewish communities in a former Communist country, I usually devote my introductory…
Misconception: One can fulfill the obligation to eat Seudah Shelishit (The Third Meal) on Shabbat by studying Torah in lieu…
By Jack (Yankl) Botwinik “Can we stop by the dollar store?” my nine-year-old pleads as we drive home from school.…
If you’re looking for ways to stretch your food budget, especially when entertaining, here are some simple solutions to help…
By Yossi Huttler inside the temporary walls each soul sent, enters dwelling on faith that He who built the succah…
By Yossi Huttler untying the past year’s binding utterances and mutterings today I slip the knots tethering me to what…
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic, was forty-two. Both worked at Empire Blue…
The following is a meager attempt to record the awesome occurrences that both my colleagues in Hatzalah–the emergency Jewish volunteer…
