Summertime is the best time to buy fresh produce at the peak of its season, when flavor is optimum. Farmers’ markets are the perfect place…
Summer 2014 (5774)
Summertime--The Garden of Eatin’!
Journey of Faith: A Comprehensive Commentary on Sefer Bamidbar By Yonasan David Arenias Shaarei Torah Publications, 2013 640 pages Mikraot Gedolot, the classic set of…
Not too many readers understand what it takes to come up with an eighty-eight-page full-color thought-provoking magazine, issue after issue, year after year. But since…
By Martin Nachimson In this issue of Jewish Action, we invited a number of erudite rabbis, thinkers and educators to reflect on the implications of…
Exploring One of the Most Puzzling Rituals at a Jewish Wedding “Did you get to see the mizinke tantz?” my wife asked me while we…
The Laws of Cooking and Warming Food on Shabbat By Mordechai Willig Maggid and Yeshiva University Press Jerusalem; New York, 2013 479 pages There are…
The Unexpected Road: Storied Jewish Lives Around the World By Rabbi Hillel Goldberg Feldheim Publishers Israel, 2013 228 pages Reviewed by Leah R. Lightman …
“. . . and the childless one should not say, ‘Look, I am a shriveled tree.’ For this is what Hashem said to the barren…
Not to Forget: The Story of Harry Reiss and the Creation of the Rockland Center for Holocaust Studies By Marion Reiss MP Press, 2013 212…
Our Way’s “Illuminating” New Sefer We all, to some degree, communicate through touch. For the Jewish deaf-blind, it’s the only way. They literally “speak”…
