“Hand In Hand,” a picture book published by Apples & Honey Press, written by Andria Rosenbaum with illustrations by Maya Shleifer, tells the story of

Reviewing: “The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust” by Dan Rabinowitz. The Tauber Institute Series for the

Part 3 (continued from last week) In an April 20, 1906, article for the English Jewish Chronicle, Herbert Loewe provides an eyewitness account of an

Part 5 (continued from last week) He was moser nefesh (devoted) at the amud. On a particularly hot day, I once asked him what he

Part II Last time, we discussed the Honeywell Total Connect Comfort Smart thermostat, which does not pose any Shabbat issues, and contrasted it to the

The grass is always greener, isn’t it? When I was a kid, I always wondered how the whole children-hiding-the-afikoman minhag is even fair. The father

With the Passover seder comes a wonderful tradition involving the hiding and finding of the Afikoman. It is the Jewish version of hide-and-go-seek, a fun

Shabbat HaGadol/Parshat Metzora Over the years, we have struggled to understand why this selection from the navi Malachi, the very final words of the last

The Mishnah in the 10th chapter of Pesacḥim includes a set of Ma Nishtana. If one opens a standard Babylonian Talmud (Pesacḥim 116a), one sees

Editor’s note: The below was written originally on Facebook in honor of the Yudins’ fifty years of service to Fair Lawn’s Congregation Shomrei Torah. Get

We are amazed by the fact that we celebrated the bris of our 13th great-grandchild this past Shabbat in Chicago. It is almost as difficult

As I walked out of my house on my way to work the other day, I met some neighbors waiting for their children’s school buses.