Kochav Hashachar—A hadassis only a myrtle branch, but for Jews worldwide this simple branch takes on important significance before the holiday of Sukkot. For Araleh Antman and Efraim Tzipilevich, hadassimare a year-round occupation.  In the hills of Samaria, about 20 miles from Jerusalem, is the yishuv Kochav Hashachar, where

Jerusalem —One of the newest and biggest trends in the corporate world of the 21st century is outsourcing —letting an outside group manage part or a department of a company at a much lower cost than hiring employees directly. This model has already been commonly adopted for less expensive janitorial help, or

The hot Jerusalem sun bounced off the window of the Gal-Paz record shop and burned through my shirt. Ignoring the heat, I stood outside the store reveling in the Erev Shabbos atmosphere of the Geulah neighborhood while my husband paid for our purchases inside. The tantalizing aroma of simmering gefilte fish and just baked challah soon proved to be too much for my diet.

For a few years I managed to avoid going to “Back to School Night.” I thought it was something optional, something most parents dismissed in favor of an evening at home. My own mother never went. I think she thought it was too hard to meet all of the teachers for her six children in such a short time span, and besides, she knew the teachers from having other kids

This past camping season was quite an “ordinary” Camp HASC summer, similar to summers in the past. . . But an “ordinary” summer in Camp HASC is absolutely extraordinary!

Campers with a wide variety intellectual and physical disabilities had the greatest summer of their lives. They enjoyed making new friends and reconnecting with old ones. They

Jerusalem—Until the middle of the 20th century, the Jews of Ethiopia lived in almost complete isolation from other Jewish communities across the globe, preserving and developing distinctive religious traditions not found in the rest of Jewry. In the 1980s they began leaving Africa for Israel in the thousands, and at present almost none remain in

While Jewish contributions to America in science, medicine, politics and particularly arts and entertainment are colossal, there is one area where the Jewish role may be overlooked: the military.

Jews have fought in all of America’s wars, crossing the Delaware with George Washington and at Valley Forge, storming Normandy and Iwo Jima in WWII and

During the busy holiday week, it’s helpful to serve a dish that can be prepped in advance. This recipe for lemon sole is one of my favorites. It has great flavor and texture, and can tempt even those who are not fish aficionados. Serve with the following recipe for brown rice and seasonal sautéed zucchini. And with only two pots to clean, you’ll enjoy

and some Yemenite influences from Rayzel Yaish

As a child on Rosh Hashanah in my home, we ate pomegranate and new fruit as is customary to symbolize our wishes for the upcoming year. However, as my husband and I began developing our own family customs, we were drawn to the idea of eating symbolic foods that express our hopes and aspirations for the

When I first came to Stern College in New York so many years ago, I felt like an alien who just landed from Planet Pennsylvania. Thank goodness I wasn’t alone. There were kids from all over the country: Missouri, Ohio, Maryland, Washington and Florida. Most of us “out-of-towners” gravitated to one another, and then stuck together like glue—for dear life. Yes,

Esther put down the receiver. This time she refused to let her mother make her feel guilty. Why couldn’t her parents understand how stressed out she was, how painful it was for her to send her oldest child away for an entire year! Whose crazy idea was this,she thought for the millionth time , who had decided that it was a good idea to send a child off,

For the past 20 years, since our children were in school full-time, Nina has been a travel agent. She noticed that people in Montreal would never check other sources to see where they could get special deals on flights and hotels and as an avid reader of the NY Times from the day we left the States she would be amazed at the significant differences in prices vis-a-vis