Summertime Specialties

With the abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables, I am always inspired to try out new recipes during summer. I hope you will be, too!

In the preface to Relevance: Pirkei Avos for the Twenty-First Century, the author, Rabbi Dan Roth, notes that a librarian in the Jewish National Library…

Children born in the post-Holocaust era of the 1940s, 50s and 60s grew up knowing their parents had gone through hell on earth. The ghosts…

A selection of responsa from Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, the spiritual leader of the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust.

“There were always choices to make,” recalled the Austrian-born Jew Viktor Frankl after enduring three years in Auschwitz and concentration camps under the Third Reich.

I begin, and end, in the same place: decimation.

I am a mainstream Modern Orthodox Jew, a product of the Jewish day school movement. I’ve served on the boards of the last two shuls…

Misconception: Aveilim (mourners) stop sitting shivah on erev Shabbat at noon. Fact: Private displays of mourning continue on Shabbat, while the public aspects of shivah…

In a series of weekly e-mails that Rabbi Steven Pruzansky sent to members of his shul while living in Modiin, Israel, for several months this…

Shemittah Simplified I read Rabbi Mordechai Kuber’s article on shemittah observance (“Shemittah for the Clueless,” winter 2007) with interest, but was distressed to find two…