Over the last decade there has been an increasing number of Chinese producers of ingredients for kosher products. Mashgichim have crisscrossed the vast country...

“Chance” meetings and “coincidental” events often figure largely in stories about unaffiliated or disinterested Jews returning to observant Judaism. I’ve seen this in my...

There is a religious cult within the Shiite leadership in Iran called the “Twelvers.” They believe that one-third of the world must perish in...

I went through the Bais Yaakov system, both high school and seminary, and over and over again I heard that the most important thing for...

Leah Romm has always balanced opposite worlds. She grew up as a Hebrew-speaking girl in Yerushalayim, but she went to seminary in Gateshead, England,...

Some of you may think I am completely crazy, but I love Pesach! Don’t you worry—I didn’t always feel this way. As I began...

Some of you may think I am completely crazy, but I love Pesach! Don’t you worry—I didn’t always feel this way. As I began...

About 20 years ago, I heard through some of our former classmates that Feivy had become a life insurance salesman. With his fresh-off-the-press license,...

The Vatican is going to open its Secret Archives concerning Pope Pius XII’s dealings with the Nazis. So what? I think this is another...

“Rafi’s getting married?” It was two weeks before my son’s wedding, and I was both amused and annoyed by my mother’s question. On the one...