It’s the last thing any driver wants to see in their rear-view mirror. Yes, blue lives matter, but we don’t want to see a cop

During the Scripps National Spelling Bee last week, 13-year-old Shiva Yeshlur from Wyoming was asked to spell the word “cholent.” Yeshlur requested a definition from

Shlomo Hamelech stated: “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of celebration, and the living will

On Thursday nights the Staums have “Shaarei Torah carpool.” Our son Shalom is in ninth grade in Yeshiva Shaarei Torah, and we have the pickup

During the last couple of weeks our kehilla celebrated and mourned what epitomizes the circle of life. On the seventh day of Pesach, Mr. Seymour

When I was a kid (wow, I’ve reached that age…), before Pesach I would bring home a nice Pesach booklet that contained many divrei Torah.

In my youth, before I owned any sefarim I loved siddurim and machzorim and was always excited by new ones. This was especially true as

During Shacharis and Mincha most weekdays, following Shemoneh Esrei, davening continues with the recitation of Tachanun. Perhaps the most under-appreciated section of davening, Tachanun is

Last Friday, as President Trump took the podium at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he noticed his own reflection on television and remarked that

In case you are afraid that the honor and respect conferred upon rabbis goes to their heads, rest assured that rabbis have a built-in “humility

Someone once noted that it’s not easy being the child of a therapist. Everything that happens in the child’s life is psychoanalyzed—why did you do

I am always amazed by airports. It’s incredible that from every gate throughout the terminals, planes depart for different places all over Earth. One gate