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…
Spring 2019(5779)
Around the Shabbat Table
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
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…
LACK OF SERIOUS TANACH STUDY I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series of articles in the winter issue on Tanach study (“Mining Tanach,” 2018). Both Nechama…
The challenge we confront as individuals, and as a community, is to discern when and how to apply the values of tolerance and intolerance appropriately.
