Among Orthodox Jews, aquatic sports, outside of swimming, can’t be counted among the most popular participant sports. Sailing, competitive rowing and sculling are simply not

It is undebatable that the Middle East has seen more than its share of conflict and war. Whether one looks back in time or just

It was back in December 2002 when I was assigned the task of training a team of young Jewish-American athletes who were scheduled to play

It’s been going on for years in Teaneck: a dastardly conspiracy to prevent me from consuming at least one large pastry dough poppy seed hamantashen

Part I of IV To an Orthodox Jew, the image of the Sinai Peninsula conjures up vast stretches of endless sand dunes, mountains, infrequent oases,

It’s Friday afternoon. It’s wintertime. You work in Lower Manhattan and Shabbat is starting shortly after 4. How do you ensure you’ll get home on

Now that the gift-giving season of Chanukah is a distant memory and we’ve also satisfied the birthday presents of all of our friends and relatives

The Talmud cryptically teaches us that in every generation, 36 righteous people “greet the Shechina,” the Divine Presence. From this arcane reference has emerged the

As readers of this esteemed periodical may recall, I wrote a story last summer about vacations in the Catskill Mountains. In particular, I recounted how

Part III of III On a late December night in 2013, I was surfing the Internet when I happened onto a website created by a

Around Veteran’s Day, it’s appropriate to look back at two of the mostly forgotten members of our family who served with distinction in the U.S.

Among the numerous prayers recited in synagogues on the High Holidays, few have the impact of “U’netaneh Tokef” (“Let us now relate the power…of this