Kudos to Steve Lipman for his evocative retrospective on the long and distinguished career of Rabbi Dr. Isaiah Wohlgemuth at the Maimonides School in Brookline,…
Spring 2014 (5774)
Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Cooperman
By Nachum Amsel Twenty-five years ago, I moved to a neighborhood in Ramot Aleph called Neve Orot. My wife and I chose Ramot because my…
By Zvi Volk Like many of his friends, Max Rabin learned in a yeshivah in Israel the year after he graduated high school. That’s where…
In “The Little-Known Story Behind the Latke” (winter 2013), author Carol Green Ungar claims that the earliest American Jewish cookbook, entitled Aunt Babette’s Cookbook, was…
They say that the only time you hear Ivrit spoken on Derech Beit Lechem, a major street near where I live in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood,…
In his article “Shabbos Is More Than One Day a Week” (winter 2013), Rabbi Hillel Goldberg quotes Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik as saying that “America…
I am a screenwriter and producer who has worked in Hollywood for my entire professional life. I know all the players in town, and even…
By Jack Abramowitz Shabbos. There, I said it. Shabbos. Sukkos. Shavuos. Mitzvos. Matzos. Shalosh seudos. Baba Basra. It feels good to get that off my…
There is a fascinating debate among the Tannaim in Tractate ta’anit regarding an issue that at first glance seems purely academic, since it is about…
After attending a meeting with a group of various individuals, Sheldon Rudoff, a”h, suggested I speak to one of the attendees—Rabbi Matis Greenblatt. Matis and…
