How to Mindfully Eat a Latke on Chanukah

I am often asked how mindful eating can fit into an Orthodox lifestyle. With so many holidays, Shabbat and semachot, there is always a reason…

One day this winter Ronit Comrov will make dozens of latkes, and sufganiyot, “just raspberry,” for her friends in Milwaukee. In London, Rabbi Hillel Simon…

In truth, sometimes when I was with him and began to consider all of his accomplishments, I felt as if I was sitting in front…

Perhaps the most famous female print shop owner was Devorah Romm. The Romm printing shop began in 1799 and continued printing until 1940, when the…

While female writers became increasingly prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many chose to use pen names, leave their work unsigned or refrain from…

Last year, in the pages of this journal, we explored the unique halachic issues related to Ebola, a highly contagious and fatal disease.1 The article…

“You can talk to your children about the value of chessed, and what it means to give, [but] I have a feeling [that my children]…

Walking through the unknown without a compass is bewildering, and at times, devastating. Yet there are those who have managed to rise above their ordeals.

Essentially, they seek to answer one overriding question, burning in the hearts of all thinking Jews: Where is American Jewry headed?

Then Sherwood came in and he was different. “His voice was simple and pure, but what really got all of us was how his neshamah…