A 12-year-old from Staten Island, New York, became the first Orthodox Jew to win the Food Network cooking competition “Chopped” in an episode that aired

On Rosh Hashanah, there is an ancient custom to go to a body of water and recite various pesukim as we “cast off our sins.”

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I don’t think we go to shul just to daven. It’s just a theory. I’m not a rabbi, so take everything I say with a

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July 7, 2018, Shabbos morning, 5:50 a.m. I was lying in an ER bed in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in despair over the slow-as-molasses medical care. Don’t

Going to my mailbox several weeks ago, I encountered a beautiful silver envelope embossed with the names Tzvi and Esther Fass, and Reuven and Fay

In a few short weeks, Jews all over the world will unite in celebrating the annual completion of the Torah-reading cycle. Communities, families and individuals

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Cruising down the aisles of Walmart, firmly holding my (almost) fourth grader’s sweet little hand as she excitedly waved her freshly printed school-supply list, I

A Lenient Ruling of Rama I recall learning as far back as elementary school that if one forgot to recite HaMelech HaMishpat during the Aseret

It’s the million-dollar question: Why do we feel like we never change? The truth is that the question itself is a fallacy. Who doesn’t change