While hiking in the fall of 2008, a member of Temple Beth Jacob, a Reform synagogue in Newburgh, New York, discovered several headstones with…
Summer 2012 (5772)
Ahavat Yisrael: A Grave Matter
How you can have an elegant and delicious Shabbat meal without sacrificing your waistline Q: How can I make healthier choices on Shabbat without feeling…
The life story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, is interesting enough on its own, but when told by his protégé, former Prime Minister…
I appreciated Rabbi Gil Student’s fascinating analysis of texting on Shabbat (“What’s Wrong with Texting on Shabbat?” spring 2012). It is time for the observant…
Drink to Your. . . Health? As a family demographer, I very much enjoyed the issue on the Orthodox family in the twenty-first century (spring…
Women in the New Economy The article “The New Economic Reality” by Tamar Snyder (winter 2011) is so very relevant. I was disappointed, however, that…
A poem in honor of the Siyum HaShas.
“The World Endures Solely on Account of the Breath of Schoolchildren” An Elegy Over the Murders of a Teacher and Students in Toulouse, 25 Adar…
Terrific tips and recipes for traveling kosher
Following the Destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, our Sages introduced a number of practices whose purpose is to remind us of Yerushalayim and the Beit…
