One of the most successful and innovative women in Israel, Rabbanit Shulamit Melamed is the current founding head of the popular Religious Zionist news network…
Spring 2016(5776)
RABBANIT SHULAMIT MELAMED
Why do Americans feel so bad when, by every meaningful measure, we have it so good? That’s the question that troubles me every evening as…
When Eli Genauer reads an old cookbook, it’s not for the recipes. Like a detective on the hunt, Genauer searches cover to cover for clues…
Stardom and the rise of the “celebrity chef” have created a place for chefs in modern society on par with the likes of sports personalities…
Many assume Torah Judaism came to these shores in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This is not only historically false, but it overlooks the extraordinary…
I’m named after Jacob, my grandfather, who was named after Yaakov Bienenfeld, the patriarch of this family and my great-great-grandfather who came to the US…
When I was growing up, small farms still existed in Boro Park. I remember there were goats and chickens. It was a time when the…
When my parents, Peretz and Annie Scheinerman, lived in Washington, DC [in the early part of the twentieth century], you could just walk onto the…
It’s a fallacy to say that Orthodox Judaism in America existed only from the 1940s onward. My grandchildren mark six generations since the arrival of…
Many of the books on the history of American Orthodoxy include the names Bruder, Weberman, Fensterheim and Jacobs. These families helped build the spiritual foundation…
