How well off are you? For the past couple of years, if someone referred to “the health of the Jewish community,” you would probably assume he was talking about physical health and infectious diseases. But...

Last month, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on two occasions. It wasn’t because they had become buddies during the coronavirus outbreak or that they wished to...

If all went as planned, by the time you read this, the James Webb Space Telescope will have deployed its tennis-court-sized sunshield and be well on its way to its final orbit point, one...

Yield: 4–5 servings 1 pizza crust 1 cup pizza sauce 3 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan cheese 7 oz. fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced 6 large basil leaves, thinly sliced 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt, to taste Black pepper, to taste If...

Yield: 3 cups 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 5 cloves garlic, minced ¼ cup red wine, optional 3 (15-oz.) cans crushed tomatoes 1 teaspoon dried oregano 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 8 to...

Yield: 1 serving; double as needed 2 chocolate sandwich cookies 1 cup whole milk Optional: Whipped cream and crushed cookies Remove the filling from the cookies. Place cookies into a small pot. Pour milk over them. Cook, over medium-low...

2 cups flour ¾ cup cocoa 1¾ cups sugar 1½ teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt FOR CUPCAKES Shake ingredients together in a 2-gallon Ziploc bag. AS A CAKE: Mix ingredients directly in the baking pan with a fork. Then...

I’m standing beneath the towering Zion Gate after a five-minute walk from the light rail station in Jerusalem, which took me through the Jaffa Gate, past the historic police station known as the “Kishle,”...

The three of us were sitting around the kitchen table poring over the old wedding albums that had seen better days, having been thumbed through lovingly by family members over and over again. “Who is...

Every time I read the parshiyot of the makkot, I wonder again at Pharaoh’s reaction. How could he have not recognized that he was engaging in self-sabotage over and over again? Of course, we...