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Now Velvel was speechless. Yerucham and Rikki? Yerucham was supposed to marry Zahava! Yerucham knew she wanted to date him! How did that even happen?
The Nazis sought to make a people vanish not only from the streets, but from memory. This book was an answer to that effort.
By Irwin Cohen
People who were born that year and would go on to great fame included Fidel Castro and Norma Jeane Mortenson.
In almost every ancient civilization, priests were the masters of death.
By Alan Zeitlin
Lebowicz performs across the country for synagogues and organizations that want clean, kosher comedy that still makes them laugh. His comedy is easily accessible, drawing from Jewish laws and customs as well as from some popular culture that everyone is familiar with.
It is impossible to romanticize long-term learning without the financial component. The stress of not being able to cover your tuition bill, to make your car payment, or pay your rent, cannot be dismissed.
By Baruch Landa
What separates the soul from G-d isn't distance but difference in form.
As exhibitions grew more competitive, pilots from other schools pushed for higher speeds, steeper dives, and more dangerous stunts. Wilbur and Orville Wright were steadfast in resisting this trend, emphasizing control and structural integrity, an ethos passionately embraced by Welsh.
Predictably, the mayor bases his defense of his veto on a deliberately misleading distortion of the First Amendment.
Between British pubs, American delis, and supermarket branding departments, “nosh” has become one of those rare words that somehow means both comfort food and moral superiority at the same time – depending entirely on who’s selling it.
By Anat Coleman
To an outsider, it might seem excessive. After all, snacks can be bought almost anywhere. Isn’t part of being on vacation about letting go, being spontaneous, and indulging in what’s around you?
By Eli Lebowicz
Nosh as the noun also feels like it’s the comfort food you go to when coping with something tough that’s happened.
I know most people think of sweets when it comes to nosh, but I prefer a more salty, savory treat like pretzels or potato chips.
A nosh wasn’t a full meal. It was just a little something – standing in the kitchen, grabbing a bite of this and a taste of that. No rules, no plates, just enjoying food in the moment.
They are not engaged in the political argument of disproving the Palestinian narrative that falsely claims that there is no ancient connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Only fools and Jew-haters believe that deliberately dishonest claim.
How does a man carrying a shotgun even make it to the anteroom of a presidential event? What happened to the outer security perimeter?
By Mendi Glik
The field of wedding bands is crowded. There are many in the marketplace. But Shir Soul stands out because of the high standards Ross maintains for the band.
If confidence comes after action, what allows action to happen in the first place? The answer is self-trust.
The first step is for you and your husband to come together in complete alignment. This is his father, and it’s important that any communication comes from a place of unity, not tension between you.
The editors made one decision and held it absolutely: not a single word was changed, misspellings included, half-finished sentences included.
One of the biggest misconceptions about financial planning is that it is purely mathematical. Numbers matter, but they are only part of the equation.
It was just so, so many parties, and so much anguish and planning, even with Mindy and Mrs. Rosner’s help and her own talents for party planning. If only her mother had been there to take over the burden with her quiet competence and cheerful nature!
By Met Council
Behind the scenes, Met Council leverages AI-powered tools to optimize warehouse operations and direct food to partner agencies and pantries based on real-time data and community demand. This approach ensures resources are distributed more efficiently and equitably.
Remarkably, it retains its original leather binding, a rarity for Zhitomir printings of this period.
By Alan Zeitlin
Reactions were swift, with some saying it was an offense to our community to no longer have a Jewish Heritage Day and others saying it was not a big deal and there could be innocuous reasons.
It’s time to assemble a team. Mothers have the unique ability to manage many hats and their absence must often be filled by more than one person. Find the two women in your life who you trust, and who genuinely care about your well-being.
Those seeking to study the Shemoneh Esrei in advance will find its structured explanations especially helpful, while those using it during davening can benefit from the clarity and accessibility of its layout.
The Jewish connection to the land of Israel is not just historical. It is continuous. While many peoples have lived in the region, Jewish identity remained tied to this land for thousands of years, even in exile.
Today, Habima retains institutional and symbolic prominence as Israel’s official national theatre and it is widely treated as a foundational institution in modern Hebrew theatre.
What Mamdani is promising is cheaper eggs and bread not through operational efficiency, but through aggressive, unsustainable public subsidies.
By Martin Bodek
Mayim – like “horse” and “sheep” – is both singular and plural, with a singular literal meaning, and a plural of figurative meanings.
By dvora
There is one additional component, without which none of earth’s bounty could thrive. It is simple yet complicated; it is a formless, shapeless, colorless liquid which has sustained human life, plant life, animal life. And that is water – mayim.
By Avi Ganz
Our default setting, as natural as water in a seabed, is "Knowledge of the L-rd." Without the distractions and challenges of our lives, we would be so powerfully aware of Hashem's presence.
Water adapts, taking the shape of whatever holds it, while also maintaining a quiet strength that allows it to carve through stone over time.
By David Curwin
In ancient scripts, the letter was often drawn with a wavy or zigzag shape, fitting for a word connected to water.
Harris’s narrative deliberately ignores the brazen reality of Iranian aggression against the United States.
Stripping a democratic ally of the very tools required to dismantle terrorist infrastructure is not a “pro-peace” position. It is a policy that actively ensures a high death toll and provides a massive tactical advantage to Hezbollah and Hamas.
Gavriel Tirosh appears for less than a year in the lives of five Jerusalem high school students in the late 1930s. He teaches them history. He trains them for combat. He vanishes. Decades later, they are still trying to make sense of what he meant and what he cost them.
By Mendi Glik
I asked some Israelis in the community if they knew the song. And guess what? They also were not familiar with it. I realized that most of the readers here also might not be familiar with the song, so I decided to review it in this column.
It was at that Chabad in North Brooklyn, on Bedford Avenue, where I experienced the kindness of the Jewish community and, during dinner, felt a warmth in my chest that I immediately knew was G-d.
The chronicle that follows is methodical where Yizker is lyrical, but it is written by someone who cannot quite believe what she is documenting.
When it comes to financial news, successful investing does not require constant attention to headlines or daily market movements. It is more useful to focus on financial history instead of forecasts.
But—are you sure Effi is the kind of man you’re looking for? Chani could hear that Shulamis was having a hard time shifting gears, after pinning all her hopes on Yerucham.
By Alan Zeitlin
The hypocrisy revealed in that testimony was blatant. The usual rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to Jews and Israel.
By Marc Gronich
“I remember seeing pictures of teenagers who looked a lot like I did and realizing that if I had simply been born at a different time, that would very likely have been me and my family,” she recounted.
By Jason Maoz
“It gave us a tremendous amount of pleasure,” said Welz, “especially in these economic times, to know that parents didn’t need to dig deep into their pockets or add to their credit card debt in order to give their families a joyful and memorable experience.”
We have just emerged from our shelters, literally and figuratively, after six weeks of war. The air is heavy with mixed emotions shaping how we approach this moment. There is relief, but also grief. Pride, but also fatigue. Nothing feels simple or settled.
For Hirsch, Hebrew is not a convenient tool for communication; it is itself a revelation.
This is very common. Sometimes you are just not in a relationship mode (especially early on) between dates and your brain naturally shifts back to your regular life (routines, work, family, etc.) when you are not with him.
What sets this book apart is its attention to what mourners actually feel. The authors describe the guilt that surfaces unexpectedly, the exhaustion of telling the same story to every visitor, the moment months later when a smell or a song brings grief rushing back.
Since October 7, hate crimes against Canadian Jews have skyrocketed. In recent weeks, shots were fired at area shuls in two separate incidents. Police have now banned pro-Palestinian protestors from demonstrating in Jewish areas.
As we have been able to piece together from the many reports out there, the rescue was not just a triumph of American air superiority. It was a master class in the deep intelligence and special operations integration between the U.S. military and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Once he became Michael Boaz Israel, Cresson’s energies turned with intensity toward the welfare of the Jewish people – spiritually, materially, and politically – and he embraced a life of public Jewish responsibility.
The reason the word “grace” seems a bit off may be because it has a rich and contentious Christian history.
In life we need to move gracefully as well. Sometimes there’s an unexpected turn, and we need to react. We need to learn how to react gracefully.
Grace isn’t about lowering the bar or pretending things are fine. Instead, it’s about not being harsh or rigid, with yourself or with someone else.
I didn’t know it then, but I was simply stepping into something that fit better. We don’t always understand why we are where we are, but hopefully, with time, it begins to make perfect sense.
You can pre-package grace. This means deciding ahead of time that when someone you care about – a spouse, partner, child, parent, or colleague – inevitably disappoints or hurts you, you will respond with forgiveness.
It was a grotesque “loophole” that allowed a foreign entity to maintain lobbying offices in Washington, accept American taxpayer dollars, and concurrently sponsor the murder of American citizens abroad with legal impunity.
In no way did the United States go to Islamabad to negotiate a compromise with a peer adversary; it went to dictate terms of surrender to a defeated terror state.
By Mendi Glik
In the concentration camps and the gas chambers, Jews were murdered on the cursed soil of Europe. And while their brothers and sisters in the United States couldn’t do much for them, the little they could do was to shout.
By Ben Rothke
When one learns Mishnah, it is assumed that the reader already understands the essential background.
The most explicit discussion of Cohn’s Jewish background may be found in the collection Ferdinand Cohn – Blätter der Erinnerung (“Leaves of Memory,” Breslau 1901) assembled and published by his wife, Pauline.
As the Supreme Court reasoned, the Colorado law did not, in fact, protect children based on objective mental health principles; it actively banned speech simply because the state disagreed with the counselor’s mental health, theological and moral viewpoints.
By Solly Hess
As my kids can probably tell you, I smile wider when they’re standing with me under the tallis during Birkat Kohanim.
I kiss the tzitzis of the tallis, their strings reminding me of the 613 opportunities we are given to weave holiness into everyday life.
Studies in neuroscience show that physical rituals and sensory cues can regulate the nervous system and anchor attention.
Clothes play a significant role in Jewish law and lore. The first recorded clothes were made from fig-leaves and worn by Adam and Chava.
I choose a more lightweight version of the tallis I replaced, with the identical pattern, and cleaned and remounted the atarah I had been wearing. Cowardly? Indecisive? Perhaps.
While much of the political debate focused on the economic strain on cities and the influx of fentanyl, counterterrorism experts were quietly sounding the alarm about a much darker threat.
“No, not to just any guy,” Mindy said. “He’d be upset if you found someone he didn’t think was on your level. But Effi is a millionaire and a nice guy! He can show him off to all his friends with pride! My husband will look like an underachiever in comparison.”
By Mendi Glik
MBD produced his son’s first album, titled “Together.” When it came to the second album, his father stepped back and encouraged Werdyger to take the wheel, offering guidance as needed.
By Anonymous
But the truth was there, quietly, every time I walked in. Something still wasn’t stable. Then her body began to give out. A ruptured appendix. A bowel obstruction. Severe migraines that landed her back in the hospital. It felt like everything she had been holding in emotionally was now showing up physically.
Your children are not describing a small discomfort; they are describing a childhood that felt unsafe and unpredictable. When children grow up around anger and fear, especially when it includes being hit, their nervous systems carry that experience for years.
By Marc Gronich
In the spirit of the proclamations highlighting 124 days of education in New York state in recognition of what would have been the Rebbe’s 124th birthday, Rabbi Silber connected the two points in his remarks.
The incredible part of marrying someone and becoming a new entity, however, is the ability to build on the foundation your parents have given you, but with your own flavor and your own choices.
One of the most striking aspects of a yeshiva education, especially as highlighted during the Seder, is its role in preserving tradition.
Even the title page announces that this is no ordinary production. Figures such as Moses, Aaron, David, and Solomon are framed within an ornate Gothic design – a bold stylistic departure that signals the publisher’s intention to produce something entirely new.
Cassatt’s expression of high regard for Degas is entirely consistent with her long-standing view and she never wavered in her assessment of his artistic greatness, even after their personal relationship deteriorated over the Dreyfus Affair.
Last week the market sent a clear, unmistakable signal: investors are losing faith in the city. The city was forced to shrink its general obligation bond sale to $2.3 billion – $300 million less than targeted.
Most people think astrology is just about zodiac signs. ‘I’m a Gemini,’ ‘I’m a Leo.’ But there is so much more information in a birth chart. It reveals a person’s struggles, gifts, and even their spiritual strengths.
As a real cultural institution, the fool represents society's ability to self-criticize but in a contained, limited manner.
By Maayan Zik
Rashi explains that this spirit of folly leads a person to rationalize their actions and imagine there will be no real consequences.
I mean, I married a man who, at our wedding, in front of our family and friends, got up to the microphone and sang a song in fake Chinese.
How about those 25 new child care centers? Not opening. Because many of the New Yorkers raising the next generation know that nothing is free, and what is billed as "free" is not of good quality.
By David Curwin
In Hebrew, na’ar shows up in three separate forms: a noun and two unrelated verbs.
To be sure, the initial calculation behind Newsom’s rhetoric is a depressing reflection of the modern Democratic primary landscape.
Beginning in 1947, the JRSO searched out heirless Jewish assets and unclaimed property in the American-occupied zone of Germany and distributed them to Jewish institutions and organizations, primarily in the USA and Israel.
Jewish intellectuals are once more being pressed to declare themselves about Israel and the diaspora, about whether integration is security or slow disappearance. Singer watched such a project unfold in real time and refused to supply an answer.
By Mendi Glik
Classic Israeli music has many songs to offer about spring and nature. And how could it not? Just walking outside in Israel immediately inspires you.
Values such as kibbud av va’em and the importance of supporting children as they build their lives are deeply ingrained. These are not obligations people take lightly.
July 17, 2026 
