Over the last decade there has been an increasing number of Chinese producers of ingredients for kosher products. Mashgichim have crisscrossed the vast country certifying plants, and the kosher products that land on your...

“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 own family. My cousin and his non-Jewish wife, both graduates of...

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 a deadly struggle before the twelfth imam (Mahdi) emerges from...

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 your family is shalom bayis. Yeah, right, I thought. You see, I...

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, even though she hardly spoke a word of English. She...

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 making Pesach on my own, each year I slowly started...

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 making Pesach on my own, each year I slowly started...

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, he was making the rounds of our mutual friends, and...

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 hoax being perpetrated against the Jews. I have been down...

“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 hand, I enjoyed sharing the details with her about her...