It is the prophet Amos who devotes the opening verses of his eponymous biblical book to asking seven rhetorical questions. Among those questions we find

I was more than a little amused when reading a recent article about J. Robert Oppenheimer, celebrated in 1945 as “the father of the atom

By Rabbi Shawn Zell Many an article has been written about the great blessing the United States has been to our people. I am not

I recall a Yiddish maxim of my teenage years which has remained with me. “Az meh hot nit kayn flaysh, redt men veggn flaysh—If one

We are told that, in biblical tradition, barley was primarily animal food, while wheat was thought to be the ideal human food. However true this

The last time I checked this month’s secular calendar, I saw that May 6th was listed as “National Nurses Day,” and May 7th was listed

It was William Shakespeare who rhetorically asked, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Back in the day, Mah Nishtanah was not necessarily the opening line of the four questions in the Pesach Haggadah. In many an Eastern European

How are “months” different from all other demarcations of time when it comes to Yiddish? All other demarcations of time have acceptable Yiddish equivalents for

A poker player, I’m not. But even I know that “four of a kind” beats “three of a kind.” And that is the story of

If the lives of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln—whose birthdays we observe this Monday—have for the longest time failed to evoke much interest, then, perhaps,