Shabbat/Holidays
“The great tragedy of life,” Kierkegaard wrote, “is that it must be lived forward and can only be understood backwards.”
Nancy Morgenstern, a”h: Remembering a Life of Joy, Faith and Passion As told to Bayla Sheva Brenner Nancy Morgenstern, a…
In the years following the Holocaust, survivors were, for the most part, silent about the devastation of European Jewry.…
Every year, as the chazzan starts the first few notes of the special Kaddish for the Yamim Noraim on the…
In honor of Chanukah, it is traditional to eat foods fried in oil, including luscious latkes and sufganiyot (Israeli-style donuts…
Facts and Figures about the New Year AT A GLANCE • 5771 has 385 days, including 55 Shabbatot, the longest…
Warsaw Photo: Ahron D. Weiner/www.ahronphoto.com The big news in Krakow’s Jewish community last year didn’t make the news. A young…
In my childhood, a half-century ago in Buffalo’s North Park neighborhood that served as a passage point between the East…
Q: I know you’re supposed to eat sweet foods this time of year, but I don’t want all the calories! Is…
Over the past several decades, the observance of Tishah B’Av has been transformed for many of us. Not long ago,…
Preparing for a seder in Balad, Iraq, 2004. Courtesy of the Unit Ministry Team PESACH IN IRAQ One week after…
