The sudden year-end assault on religious rights also extended to Yeshiva University, the vaunted hub of Modern Orthodoxy
She grew up under KGB surveillance. Today, she’s teaching Torah in Moscow
“An old man does not mean a lame man. The next time the physician comes from Damascus, see him”
After years of facing a closed door, I now stand on the other side
There’s just nothing quite as warm and homey as a freshly baked apple crisp straight from the oven
There are so many mitzvos, we can’t possibly work on everything at once. The idea is to pick one small area to improve in
I knew Mama was right. A Seder without Papa? What would that even look like?
On Rosh Hashanah we restore the crown — and our focus
“I picture myself holding a pretty pink balloon, and then I let it go”
There were thousands of little things, the memorabilia that was important and meaningful to me, even if they weren’t objectively valuable
These are like little meat raviolis that use eggplant instead of pasta and sesame seeds instead of tomato sauce