I was delighted to hear about the recent publication of Rejoice in Your Festivals: Penetrating Insights into Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, a book filled with…
Spring 2008(5768)
Life As a Happy Single Person
A little over sixty years ago, more than six million of our people perished during the Holocaust. Many of the survivors, broken in body but…
A strange thing happened on the way to my becoming a ba’alat teshuvah: I discovered I was not a Jew. I made this discovery about…
It was the first night of Pesach, and on a holiday that celebrates questions, I began by asking one. “Where are we tonight?” We were…
Misconception: The early Zionists were offered, and nearly accepted, Uganda as the Jewish homeland. This demonstrates that Zionist Leader Theodor (Benjamin Ze’ev) Herzl supporters were…
Participating in a Seder comes naturally to those who grew up in observant families or who had the benefit of a Jewish day school education.…
Remembering Rabbi Kret This past Yom Kippur night in Baltimore, I walked home from shul with my son Avi, who was visiting from New York…
It was just eighty years ago that the familiar Orthodox Union (OU) logo was created to be placed on the labels of twenty-six Heinz products,…
If God ever needed a PR person to handle the foreign account, He found it in Binyamin Jolkovsky. We all know who is in charge…
As I write this column, I am thinking about a Jewish historian, not yet born, who years from now will be looking through copies of…
