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While today we hear of shomer Shabbat baseball players, senators and ambassadors, life for a shomer Shabbat Jew in the United States was often an uphill battle.
In many cases, it turns out that neurological diagnoses like dyslexia and ADHD are actually cases of Irlen Syndrome masquerading as a different disorder.
Here are some of the best filtering software for parents’ peace of mind:.
The entire Seder of Rosh Hashanah, with its many beautiful minhagim, is all about symbols. Each fruit and vegetable symbolizes a dimension of spiritual growth for the year ahead. These are all things that we can see with wine, as well.
Deeply concerned with the safety of his workers, Strauss innovated safety standards, including the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which is credited with saving 19 lives.
We push our children’s money questions aside, sometimes telling them that their queries are impolite, or perhaps worrying that they will call out our own financial hypocrisy and errors.
If one perceives that, rather than seeing his own decisions as determinative of his fate, Divine providence is guiding the result, then considering that there’s a halachic mandate to follow professional medical advice (see Taz, YD 336), the conclusion is most clearly in line with the dominant medical consensus.
By Esther Kay
To be fair, the vaccine stipulation was not a total surprise. Although previous statements regarding the country’s Covid guidelines were vague, incoming students knew to expect some form of a vaccine policy.
Students and readers frequently ask me when is the right time to apply. To this I generally reply, "Early."
Sometimes people feel that if someone accepts them then there is something wrong with that person.
By Yael Zoldan
Many of the recipes are suitable for a simple family dinner but can also be dressed up for guests or holiday meals.
Following the Chmielnizki pogroms in 1648-49, the Vaad Arba Aratzot (Council of Four Lands) reinstated the 20th of Sivan as a fast day to commemorate the pogroms and suffering the Jewish community underwent during this period.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
Direct and indirect references to his previous works provide brief insights into his ideas about happiness, meaning, materialism, alcoholism, character, marriage, anger, sensitivity, honesty and teshuvah.
Building up your self-confidence, your self-love, and your self-acceptance is paramount before you go on your first date.
The organizers are fully aware that technology is here to stay, and children will need to eventually learn how to use it in a healthy manner.
My history classes in school were dull and confusing with a mix of dates and facts, but historical fiction had drama, events and conflicts.
Although Wolffsohn’s proposed flag did not constitute a substantive departure from the Rishon L’Tzion flag that had been flown more than a decade earlier, the Encyclopedia Judaica maintains that he was unaware of the earlier flags.
Executive skills allow us to organize our behavior over time and override immediate demands in favor of longer-term goals.
I find it interesting that some people, like you... look at it as a device that gives them more independence to age at home. To others it reminds them of the fact that they’re aging and are vulnerable.
By Sara Black-Charm & Judy Kizer / HealthEAT
Tamara decided to become a vegetarian, but she gained weight from all the rice and pastas. Here's a healthy and more balanced alternative.
It makes perfect sense that your uncle in Denmark gave you the spice tower, as the hallmark on the base of “830” is a standard of silver that is most common with objects made in Scandinavia.
Dr. Sokol presents Rabbi Yochanan’s refusal to make the first move toward reconciliation as a “heroic choice” to “valorize respect for Torah’s masters over his own search of Torah truth.”
By Deborah Katz
The idea behind this invention came from Naxon’s mother, Tamara Kaslovski Nachumsohn, who used to tell him stories about how cholent was produced in her town of Vilna, Lithuania.
The Black and Jewish communities had a wonderful relationship before 1991, Lipkind observed. Could the community’s wounds heal? Or would it spill over to hate, racism, and anti-Semitism?
Rabbi Baruch Rabinowitz would later be deposed by his chassidim for Zionistic leanings.
Listen to yourself and the emotion that you feel when you talk about her and do your best to imagine your future together. Can you picture her as a strong and loving partner?
Give yourself a real shot at the role by spending at least a few minutes tailoring your resume to the job description before sending off each application.
She was seeking people who felt the Holocaust viscerally, in the limbs of the body, as a deep personal trauma, not “as though” I was there, but – “Yes, I was very much there.”
By Baruch Lytle
Among them was Aryeh Abramov, 17, who was to leave for a year in Israel two days later. “He was an all-around good person,” Abramov said, “he gave to all of us by always making the minyan, so it’s nice that I can be here and make a minyan for him.”
“This woman is driven, nothing will stop her,” attests a hospital employee when Bryk was relearning to walk following the onset of her disease.
By Alan Zeitlin
Are we really trying to understand what made his brain feel it was acceptable to attempt to wipe out a people, or are we trying to figure out why in 2021 are there people who may want to do what he failed to do?
One of the most indelible images of Stern's love of Israel will always be when, while giving a concert in Jerusalem during the Persian Gulf War (1991), the alarm sounded for an Iraqi Scud missile attack. While audience members donned gas masks, an unmasked and undeterred Stern announced, “missiles or no missiles, I cannot stop playing,” and he continued to play a Mozart solo.
If you feel that someone is misrepresenting your purpose or intent, use a contrasting statement.
By Sara Black-Charm & Judy Kizer / HealthEAT
People don't believe it, but beet crackers are absolutely delicious.
In my opinion, he is reckless and self righteous to think that this is how depression can be cured. Does he begin to understand that over 90% of suicides were with people who were suffering from depression?
Just because professionals may have invested many years and many thousands of dollars into their training, doesn’t mean they have greater certainty regarding their eventual career path.
Conceived as a project to help his scattered constituents prepare for Rosh Hashanah 5781, Rabbi Wildes sent out WhatsApp messages with thoughts and questions to consider each day.
Both camps produced polemical works defending their positions, and one rare publication I acquired this week, titled Emunat Hashem, published anonymously, was a defense of the Kabbalah and an attempt to refute R. Yihya Qafih's writings in his Milhamot Hashem (1931 Jerusalem).
By Rabbi Yitzchak B. Rosenblum
How do we approach the Jewish study of Tanach as a text with a universal message as well as a special message for the Jewish people?
Your best friend got married last year. She was tremendously blessed to find her zivug during such a difficult time. She likely understands this and has made peace with the small wedding she had or has planned for bigger celebrations in the future.
The Boston Globe reported that by the end of November 1967, “more than 400,000 members of the Jewish faith are estimated to have observed the commandment to wear Phylacteries – tefillin in Hebrew – at the city’s Western Wall, formerly known as the ‘Wailing’ Wall.”
See your blind spots. Before we resist the feedback, it’s important to recognize that perhaps maybe other people see things that we do not.
Communicating will strengthen your relationship and bring you closer to each other if done correctly. Remember, stay positive, non confrontational, and use “I feel” messages so your husband doesn’t feel blamed at all.
By Sara Black-Charm & Judy Kizer / HealthEAT
A healthy granola bar is good on the go or as a quick breakfast. It easily beats sugar laden cereal. It’s suitable as a snack on a day trip, a hike or after exercise.
I love the unstated hashkafa underlying the book. At a time when some communities are turning more toward rabbinic guidance as all encompassing, a voice urging autonomy is a wonderful call and is a true reflection of a modern hashkafa.
The truth is that if we weren’t in the midst of Covid-19, I would have sat down to hear his story. Instead, I simply told him that I am honored to live with him in the same city in the Jewish State.
By Alan Zeitlin
“I felt safer fighting in England because I wasn't worried someone would pull out a gun. Here, you never know."
By Irwin Cohen
While Jewish fans were concentrating on Hank Greenberg's efforts to pass Babe Ruth's single season home run record of 60 in 1938 Jewish baseball history was made on August 20, 1938.
You don’t need to fly anywhere of course if you don’t want to. Perhaps, though, you can take a moment to reflect on your unwillingness to travel outside of your comfort zone.
Rebbetzin Twerski does spend many pages considering the dynamics between friends, but she also includes chapters and anecdotes with more of a focus on the relationship between parent and child, grandparent and grandchild, husband and wife, siblings, and more.
A handful of books, all exceedingly rare, were printed in the 16th century in Fez, Morocco, and possibly in Egypt by Jewish exiles from the Iberian Peninsula. Following that brief period, no Hebrew books were published until the Chok Leyisrael in 1740.
Unless you are in academia and even then, this week’s key takeaway is that less is more.
Inside, the store was a disaster. There was much broken glass, and empty showcase boxes had been thrown all around.
The purpose of the Menorah Movement, which originated at Harvard University in 1906, was to win for the field of Jewish history and culture its rightful place at Harvard...
While there are always exceptions, teenage girls often experience significantly more stress around appearances – what they look like and how they dress.
You mentioned reluctance to give up baking because of the connection it has brought to your marriage. Maybe you can channel that passion for food into something that is healthier for both of you.
By Ben Rothke
While the Rav may have been slightly hyperbolic with his comparison, what can’t be denied is that the genius and brilliance of Rav Chaim was, in part, bringing a scientific sophistication to the Talmud.
Be curious; it’s much more important to listen carefully and be “in the moment” with them than to get through all your prepared questions.
By Irwin Cohen
While you'll have the respect of the players and the coaches and managers, you still have to be on guard. There's always a jokester or two who may want to take you off the religious pedestal.’
Sounds like a typical vacation rental app, but JStay comes with other notable features created specifically with the religious traveler in mind.
By Sara Black-Charm & Judy Kizer / HealthEAT
"Help me lose the excess weight but please don’t make me give up my junk food!"
One cannot exaggerate the importance of these two volumes to those interested in the Shoah.
The statements of the Sages that are found in the book constitute tremendous bodies of knowledge and wisdom on their own.
Your non-existent expectations for a home do not make her basic expectations unreasonable.
While we are visual beings, and it is natural to want to see how the person looks, the problem is that when you see the picture before you meet the person, you create a single image of who the person is.
By Alan Zeitlin
Kligman, who is shomer Shabbat, said he will not play on Sabbos and whatever team he goes to will have to adjust their schedule to accommodate him... "It's important for me because that's not the way G-d intended me to use the day," he told The Jewish Press by phone.
Before their final installation at Hadassah, the windows were on view at the Louvre during the summer of 1961 and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the end of the year, where an all-time record of 175,000 visitors came to see it during the seven weeks it was on display.
If you don’t believe in yourself, you may end up choosing to forgo positive experience simply because you don’t think you will succeed.
It’s one thing if you are responsible for your own misfortune, but so much more unbearable if you did all the right things and someone else who was not paying attention, or who took safety shortcuts, or used shoddy materials, caused horrific, irrevocable harm.
By Irwin Cohen
On the last day of spring training in 1960, Colavito, his fans and the baseball world were shocked as he was traded to Detroit for Harvey Kuenn.
Given the scale of larger, readily identifiable losses such as death and job loss, we may unwittingly disenfranchise the loss of others.
By Sara Black-Charm & Judy Kizer / HealthEAT
Gazpachos are also a good idea for the days before the 9th of Av, since many don’t eat meat and it’s quite hot outside.
Your praise should be realistic. Don’t say things that are obviously untrue as children can see through this and it will not feel good to them.
The authenticity of the book is also worth noting. I particularly appreciated that when Sara reaches out with kindness to the classmate who teased her, the classmate is largely unreceptive. This rings true.
Not everyone can write or relate a dvar Torah, but everyone likes and can ask a riddle.
It can be hard to modify the picture that you had in your head when you originally thought about your future.
We want the women who wear our clothes to feel that they are still adhering to the rules of modesty while still being fashionable.
An extension of Rabbi Lamm's Torah u-Madda Project, the journal spent its early years working out some of the questions and objections relating to the validity of combining secular studies with Torah.
Schatz had always thought of Bezalel in almost religious terms as a present-day Third Temple, a source of mystical, divine, spiritual and artistic power that would inspire a renewed national identity among the Jewish people in both Eretz Yisrael and the Diaspora.
‘What Do You Really Want?’ reminds us that ‘trusting ourselves means knowing that whatever stands before us, we are up for the task’
Different communities and families have different norms when it comes to the role of parents in the dating process. There is no one size fits all and no one golden rule.
Her feelings of worthlessness and depression likely stem from feeling like she is diminished and a shadow of her former self.
September 25, 2026 
