Reviewing: “Ceremony & Celebration: Family Edition” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Koren Publishers. 2023. English. Hardcover. 212 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592646159. “For Jews, education is not just
Just before COVID hit, Shimon Shain’s food truck business in the Golan Heights took a turn for the worse. He was forced to let go
It’s Friday night, Oct. 13, six days after Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel and massacred over 1,000 innocent men, women, children and babies.
Abby Kra-Friedman has a dream to change the world by improving access to quality women’s health care. For nearly two decades, she has been carrying
Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman would like new olot—or female immigrants to Israel—to have what was not available to her when she made aliyah 20 years ago:
During Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Jewish people around the globe will spend many hours in prayer, reading hundreds of pages of texts. Whether an
Highlighting: “Perpetuating the Masorah” by Rav Yitzhak Twersky. Maggid Books. 2023. English. Hardcover. 188 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592646043. “Values in Halakha” by Rav Aharon Lichtenstein. Maggid
Ninety-seven-year-old Zecharia Dor-Shav has multiple professional titles to his name. He is a rabbi, professor, educator, psychologist and author. Titles aside, he has dedicated his
Natan was looking forward to celebrating his bar mitzvah when tragedy struck his family. Four months before the celebration, his mother was in a terrible
Eighty-seven-year-old Sarah Lustig Goodman calls her Holocaust survival “an escape story.” She has retold her story scores of times—she estimates that a total of 13,000
Even as a teenager, Susie Mayerfeld knew that she wanted to help people heal. Her first job was as a nurse’s aid in Camp Moshava
Queens native David Leichman was raised as a big fan of baseball. From the time he played in his first softball league at the age
