The meal had been going wonderfully. The meat roll (pastrami and smoked turkey) and salmon gefilte fish had been delicious. The chu­lent was just so,

“Religion is good for you.” “A religious person is a mentally healthy person.” Statements such as these could not have been made when I was

Scene: The Parsi­panny Hilton Grand Ballroom. A hall filled with red, white, and blue balloons and streamers, with ap­proximately 200 people standing around, looking a

The popular media often accuses the Jewish people of an obsession. Some accuse us good-humoredly of an obses­sion with food. Others maliciously accuse us of

Except for the saints among us, we all boast. Sometimes we boast about our own natural endowments, our good looks, or our athletic prowess. Often

I don’t usually disa­gree publicly with lec­turers, particularly when they are expressing opin­ions which are most­ly consistent with my own. But there was one time

We all nod our heads in agreement when we hear the phrase, “Two Jews, three opinions.” We similarly chuckle when we hear the anecdote about

When one reaches a certain age, he does not have to be reminded that his memory is not what it used to be. These days,

The term is one that I first heard back in high school. There are times that I find it helpful, and there are times I

Once, in the town of Spring Lake, there lived a girl named Sari who loved Coca Cola. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Who doesn’t

It was November, 1938. Dark clouds were gathering over all of Europe, and particularly over the Jewish communities in countries like Poland and Lithuania. Although

I am the type of person who has always believed that the only way to learn about something important is to buy a book about