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We’re closing a decade and Jewish music has stretched, expanded, blurred

W hen I started writing LifeLines close to ten years ago, the frum world was experiencing a major turnaround in its attitude toward the mental health profession. Originally, our camp was bitterly opposed to psychology, a field that was viewed as rooted in kefirah (think Sigmund Freud). But as the field developed, and awareness of

A Paean to Cholent   The Shabbos meal has developed and changed over the past ten years, and a lot is new. But one thing is not; cholent doesn’t need an upgrade. Gefilte fish slowly morphed to salmon, which rapidly became lightly seared tuna steak, only to settle finally on fish that’s not cooked at