This past Shavuot, Yona Baumel, eighty-one, returned his soul to his Creator, without his son Zecharya having been returned to him. Zecharya and five other…
Winter 2009(5770)
Yona Baumel, Man of Faith
Memories of a Third-Generation American Assimilated Jew and How She Found Her Way Back to the Land Her Soul Calls Home My father doesn’t sit…
In the latter part of the twentieth century, American Jewry witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: the teshuvah movement. Suddenly, there were hundreds of ba’alei teshuvah—returnees to…
Flipping Out I really enjoy your publication. However, I was quite surprised when I read the review by Shana Yocheved Schacter of Flipping Out (summer…
During the past year, the Jewish world has been rocked by devastating news about financial improprieties. We have watched in horror as the story of…
I grew up in a home where we usually watched Saturday morning cartoons on television, where we often ate chazir, where we sometimes opened presents…
Meditations at Sixty: One Person, Under God, Indivisible (Kashrut, Modesty, Mourning, Prayer and Love) By Eliyahu Safran Ktav Publishing House Jersey City, New Jersey, 2008…
Mark My Words! By Mark Hasten with Peter Weisz Brotchin Books Indianapolis, 2004 391 pages I was skeptical when I picked up the autobiography of…
. . . IN THIS LIES THE SECRET of the table [in the Tabernacle of the desert]. For since the time that the world came…
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