Each family has its favorite “tried and true” recipes that it absolutely has to include as part of the Seder menu. Tradition, tradition! But preparing…
Spring 2010 (5770)
Kid-Friendly Passover Dishes That Are Too Good To Pass-Over!
How is it that an elder statesman of the Jewish community, a man with wide-ranging responsibility in a massive organization he helped build, can find…
In the days leading up to Pesach, as Rabbi David Polsky, the man behind the OU Kosher Consumer Hotline, enters his office, the phones are…
“Why learn Gemara?” is a question most ba’alei teshuvah will ask themselves in the course of their Torah study. It is rather unlikely that Gemara…
As North American Jews living in the twenty-first century, we take the widespread availability of kosher food for granted. We are accustomed to walking into…
I grew up in New England. Seasons in New England are the stuff of legend: Raging thunderstorms and scorching heat in summer, bursts of color…
Preparing for a seder in Balad, Iraq, 2004. Courtesy of the Unit Ministry Team PESACH IN IRAQ One week after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s…
With the brilliance of a comet Ruth streaked through our lives for fourteen years minus one week, gone now two weeks short of twenty-eight years,…
Ish Yehudi: The Life and the Legacy of a Torah Great, Rav Joseph Tzvi Carlebach By Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Shearith Joseph Publications New York, 2008…
Q: How do I stop my terrible habit of constantly snacking on anything and everything? A: Snacking is not a terrible habit. In fact, most…
