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By Sandy Eller
She found knotting a head scarf in a novel way or weaving multiple scarves together to be a creative outlet, one that she enjoyed and had strangers stopping her and asking her to share her techniques.
The book has wonderful colorful illustrations with wording that small children can easily follow.
Officially, one is not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we can’t help ourselves; some titles sound too good not to share with others.
Broadly heralded as the contemporary embodiment of the Maccabees, some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Eretz Yisrael served with the British Army during World War II, and more than 700 were killed in active duty.
By Irwin Cohen
The war affected America’s national pastime in several ways. Rubber was in short supply, so games in the 1943 season used a baseball with less rubber. The new ball resulted in low-scoring games...
If a fish has scales as a juvenile, but lacks them as an adult, is it kosher?
By Deborah Katz
The 6th of September marks the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Dunera – a British passenger ship – into Sydney, Australia with 2,542 people on board. One of them was Walter Kaufmann. Walter was born on January 24, 1924 to a Polish-Jewish woman (Rachela Schmeidler) who gave him up for adoption at […]
By J. Fried
Everyone deserves to have food on the table and a festive meal to celebrate the holiest of days.
Q: My nineteen-year-old daughter was set up on a date a little while ago. We spoke to many of his references, all of whom told us how wonderful he and his family were. They have gone out a number of times and my daughter seems to be very interested in him. However, I have noticed […]
By Alan Zeitlin
Kingsley is extremely convincing as a man who tries at first to say he only pushed paper and is not culpable for the crimes and thinks he can outsmart the Israelis.
I slowly began to realize that my grandfather’s story did not follow the typical plot of a Holocaust survivor’s account.
Except in extremely northern locales, the sky is dark and filled with stars well before the time that people claim is tzeit ha’kochavim according to Rabbenu Tam.
In the 1920s and ‘30s, illustrious European rabbis infused Tannersville with an aura of Torah and holiness.
By Sandy Eller
“When you realize that you are the one carrying them and taking their tefillos to the Ribono Shel Olam, that shift puts everything into perspective.”
Setting a Table for Two is a lively, no-holds-barred guide to marriage based entirely on a profound understanding of Torah as the ultimate guide to life.
However, the main target in Lauder’s piece was “the Orthodox,” who he paints with one brush, as if there are not huge differences within Israel’s vibrant modern Orthodox, nationalist religious Zionist and charedi communities.
On a much more serious note, Judaism prescribes many rules that we follow that involve both moral and religious codes.
By Sandy Eller
This time of year, we all have our traditional favorites, the ones that everyone at your table looks forward to seeing, but it’s always nice to round things out with some creative, new ideas.
This last good-bye was not like any previous good-byes, when my heart and my head were not always in sync, and the lump in my throat turned to tears as the plane took off.
Born in Jerusalem, one of Yisrael and Yaffa Weingarten’s seven children, she is the seventh generation of a family living in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter.
Even before the Renaissance, the meager scattering of sources that reveal the Italki experience suggest that Jewish influence was alive and well on the peninsula.
Sempo Sugihara, the Japanese consul, on his own initiative, decided to reverse a long standing policy of the Japanese government which had closed its country’s doors to Jews.
Children of survivors struggled to please their parents, and therefore, did the opposite with their own children.
By Ben Rothke
A superb essay which illustrates Angel’s approach is the story of Yakov and Esav, and Yakov’s seeming deception to obtain the valuable blessings from this father.
By Sandy Eller
Because only 100 passengers from any one ship are allowed on shore at any one time, visitors to the Frozen Continent will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities during its mildest time of year when temperatures average approximately 34 degrees.
This protest became the first time in Israeli history that demonstrators interrupted a Knesset session seeking to overturn a democratically made Knesset decision.
Some Rishonim write that one may speak lashon hara to prevent potential damage or injury.
How many times do we dismiss our children’s accomplishments without giving them the praise they deserve?
By Pnina Baim
To help those who dread it, or are neutral towards it, it’s best to fake it till you make it, i.e. act as if we are excited for the upcoming school year, and before you know it, they just might be.
One mitzvah led to another mitzvah as I volunteered at Friendly Visiting For Holocaust Survivors, a program of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island.
I’ve seen beautifully packaged luxury skincare filled with irritating ingredients – they remain top sellers because often people just don’t know better.
The concentrated extracts of plants and flowers, the life force and the “essence” of the plant, are the oils. They are the plants color and smell. They have powerful health benefits. However, they are very strong and concentrated and must be heavily diluted, ideally into what we call “carrier oils,” like apricot oil, grape seed […]
Diskin paints with a historical brush, using historical names, places and facts to back up a richly embroidered fictional account that proves to be a page-turner one can’t put down.
By Ben Rothke
A recurring theme in the book is that life has its challenges, and struggling with those challenges is what life is about.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into; I had joined a Holocaust family and jumped through the rabbit hole.
I desperately want [my wife] and I to grow old together, to be with my family and friends, and to watch my grandchildren grow up,"
His multi-lingual immigrant community, a paradigm of the American melting pot (including Russian Jews), provided a virtual cornucopia of languages, dialects, accents, intonations, and vernaculars that supplied a rich and abundant source of material for the prospective voice actor.
By Batya Jacobs
At the Rammon crater, I looked down and saw all those different coloured layers. I tried to imagine myself living in the time of each layer.
I wondered how his life may have been different if he had more direction, more encouragement, and more self-compassion.
I honestly think it was one of the best dishes I have ever made. I could stare at that meat board all day long!
Unfortunately, even after Rabbi Pines passed away in 1913, the rebbetzin and her daughter occasionally had to dodge stones thrown at them by misguided fanatics.
Cammarata, who lives to be an enamorata, offers a positive philosophy of child-rearing that we learn much more from our children than we can ever teach them, and to always treat them like small persons, not merely little children.
Within the last decade, noted Rabbi Fass, the trend in aliyah has been toward younger, single olim, ages 18 to 30, who are not necessarily coming to Israel for ideological or religious reasons.
Interestingly, among the unreleased hostages were Rav Yitzchak Hutner, the former Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbi Chaim Berlin in New York and author of Pachad Yitzchak, and members of his family, who were on their way from Israel back to America.
He argues that all humans have “common needs” – around thirty of them.
By Ann Goldberg
Most of the Jews could have been saved if the government had really wanted to protect them.
How could I use the word Dad again on anybody?
By Sandy Eller
I admit that over the years I have thrown out food that just couldn’t be resuscitated or somehow seemed to multiply uncontrollably in my refrigerator.
The fact is more people are getting cancer – but not necessarily dying from it. Many are cured, or at least are in remission for years.
By Irwin Cohen
The very first All-Star Game I ever saw was in 1950, a few weeks after our family got its first television. That was the year I started following baseball and collecting baseball cards.
Menahem Mendel Beilis (1874-1934) was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in the “Beilis Affair,” an infamous Russian anti-Semitic trial reminiscent of the better-known Dreyfus Affair. The case was unusual in that this particular blood libel – the fabrication that originated in Western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries claiming that Jews murdered […]
By Sandy Eller
Renewal never recruits potential donors, but when calls come in from those contemplating kidney donation, they answer questions and put callers in touch with previous givers.
A student of Rav Yosef Soloveitchik and of Rav Yitzchak Hutner, he would impart their wisdom to generations of Jewish students in America and in Israel for over a half-century.
Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are.
The Boston Public Garden is the first public botanical garden in America and dates back to 1838.
His ultimate goal was to ensure that every young man would benefit from our mesorah in order to ensure the continuity of Am Yisrael, the revival of Torah learning.
Watch what you think. Negative produces negative, and positive does the same.
By Duvi Honig
Religiously observant, Minister Elkin made a major kiddush Hashem when he walked a great distance one Shabbos to receive urgent medical care.
Dreyfus was one of some 50,000 attendees at Zola’s funeral in the Montmartre Cemetery. He remained deeply grateful to Zola and apparently never forgot his benefactor.
Just like your arm muscles need sleep to recharge and rest, your willpower needs the same.
By Sharon Katz
Crypto-Jews, who saw in their own circumstances a reflection of the events of Tisha B’Av.
By Pnina Baim
Lest you think that I now have more hours to get things done, this insomnia doesn’t make me more productive.
Whether you're having a bad skin day or an important meeting, there are days when you might want to wear makeup – but without it melting off your face the second you step outside.
The young pioneers of the First Aliyah did not opt for "peace now." They opted to settle and cultivate the Land of Israel, to build Jewish institutions, to revive the ancient Hebrew tongue and bring about a renaissance of the Jewish nation. And this they accomplished.
That Freud was Jewish is universally recognized. Not as well known is his strong and proud self-identification as a Jew. Freud was also very interested in Jewish history and, in his final and perhaps most controversial work, Moses and Monotheism (published in 1939), he engages in an intriguing attempt to apply psychoanalytic principles to the […]
How can we teach our children that learning can and should take place outside of the classroom in addition to in the classroom?
Through a series of expulsions, forced conversions and general violence, European Jewry looked eastward, particularly towards Poland and Lithuania for respite.
September 11, 2026 
