How do we keep our Shabbat tables lively, engaging, and a centerpiece of the week? We asked a diverse group of people to share their thoughts.

Without a prenup, how is a rabbi supposed to help?! How can I approach a husband—who probably doesn’t want to hear from a rabbi at this juncture—and ask him to give a get without the backing of a prenup?

‘I’m a very short person; I can’t see what’s on top of your head. But I see what’s in your heart.’

How should one respond when he or she fails, whether professionally or personally? Prominent rabbis and educators describe how failure can be viewed as a blessing, and how it can help make us stronger, more resilient, better people.

Children need to learn from failure, just as successful adults do.

To me, failure is not really about failure—it’s about a challenging time in someone’s life that has not been addressed.

Students are asked to consider, some for the first time, what is the arc of their religious narrative? What types of stories are their religious lives telling?

With the recent boom in direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing, more than thirty million individuals have taken the test. Until recently, these tests were done primarily to explore the general ancestry origin of the consumer. Many people want to know from which regions of the world their parents or grandparents hail, whether it be Eastern Europe […]

What is it about technology that allows it to wreak chaos on our mental states?

1. Have a set time when devices (cell phones, iPads, tablets and the like) must be off and out of reach. Go dark for dinner. 2. Have a central charging station where teens have to leave their phones and iPads to charge overnight. This is one of the best ways to combat both sleep deprivation […]

Ultimately, the success of their marriage will not be determined by the presence or absence of mental disorders, but rather by their ability and courage to overcome emotional struggles.

While there are specific instances where thrusting a knife into hard soil ten times will kasher it, that does not work for other cutlery, and there is no halachic basis for leaving a knife in the soil for a long period of time.

Enjoy these family-friendly one-pan wonders selected from Kim Kushner’s third cookbook, I Heart Kosher: Beautiful Recipes from my Kitchen (Weldon Owen)—they’re perfect for Passover or all year round. As a bonus, they’re also gluten-free!

Reading these pages can really bring the story to life, which is the ultimate point of reciting Maggid in the first place.

This beautifully designed coffee-table book describes the hard work of the pioneers and founders of the synagogues, schools and communal services in a neighborhood that today has become one of the premier Orthodox Jewish communities in the greater New York metropolitan area, and by extension, in the United States.

When I left yeshivah and began dental school almost thirty years ago, several of my friends remarked that I had chosen a “good” field because there are not too many halachic issues to contend with in dentistry. Within the first few days I realized that this was simply not the case. I began compiling a […]

[Rabbi Safran] is keenly aware of the challenges of loneliness, the temptations of cynicism, the subtle yet insidious subversion of Torah values we face every day.

You see, when he did bedikat chametz (the search for leaven), my father, like everyone else, took a candle to light the way, a feather to collect the crumbs and a bag to hold the pieces of chametz that he found. But, unlike everyone else, he always put half a matzah into the bag. “Why?” I asked. “Because that’s what my father did,” was the only response I ever got.