Who wrote Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”? Who is buried in Grant’s tomb? If missed the trick wording in these questions, you join many bright students

Every September, proud American Jewish parents upload photos to social media of their children leaving the house to start the school year. Friends and family

Position papers instead of text messages. Coalitions rather than cliques. Take every American teenage stereotype you have and they become so….20 minutes ago. On Sunday,

The decision by the city of Dearborn, Michigan, to honor Henry Ford should raise concerns for all Americans, not only Jews. Ford, the founder of

Atlanta might be well known as the birthplace of Coca Cola and Hartsfield- Jackson International, the busiest airport in the world, but for music lovers

(Courtesy of Project S.A.R.A.H.) While many residents of Bergen County were watching the Superbowl, a small group of women were gathered in a private home

From the observant to the non-observant community people are infatuated with the Israeli television series Shtisel, which is available on Netflix. We have found people

I write about dumb criminals from time to time—enough that the average reader would assume that all dumb criminals are human. This isn’t necessarily true.

Jewish life is filled with mezuzahs, meshugas and mezinkes. The first ones are usually kissed, the second are rarely missed and the third are joyously

Part 2 (continued from last week) A guard came out and I assumed he was going to give me directions to the garage or take

Classic Reasons to Forbid Use of Bar Soap on Shabbat Growing up, my friends and I assumed that use of bar soap was strictly forbidden.

We have all been bothered for decades by the following fundamental question. If the root K-D-Sh means “holy,” how could “kedeshah” mean “prostitute”? Note that