Last year, I wrote about the origin of the recital of this chapter during the High Holiday season (based largely on the research of Eliezer
In American pop culture, Super Bowl Sunday rises to the level of holiday status. Besides the tens of thousands who prepare for the day by
I have remarked to friends that while I genuinely love my work as a writer and editor for a prominent Jewish weekly newspaper, the fringe
Today was different. Of course “different” has been part of my life for a while now—almost a shadow, of sorts. Some days, actually, it feels
I left my home in sunny La Jolla, California, for New York City at the age of 17. You’re probably thinking: Why would I leave
I was standing in the middle of a boisterous kiddush lunch a few months after my 27-year-old son Ethan died of a drug overdose. As
From time to time, I meet with a classmate who is also a Jewish educator, now retired. We started teaching in 1966. Whenever we get
(Times of Israel) Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the influential spiritual leader of the Shas political party, died in Jerusalem on Monday at the age of 91.
Program helps rabbis in Israel answer queries about kashrut from 40 countries in seven languages. (Courtesy of OU) OU Kosher has created a training course
It has been pointed out that when dealing with holiness, Yiddish respectfully yields to Hebrew. With the month of Elul upon us, it is therefore
Learn the words in Hebrew to figure out the joke below: He labled me – כִּינָה Me – אוֹתִי Liar – שַׁקְרָן Don’t take it
(Courtesy of Camp Simcha) On Sunday, August 21, Chai Lifeline unveiled the newly renovated Silber and Scheiner Families Medical Center at Camp Simcha in Glen
