This easy recipe (the filling only has four ingredients!) was given to me by my mother-in-law when I was newly married. I have made it for Shavuos every year since, and everyone looks forward...

“I was woken up on Shabbos morning by the sound of sirens,” says Reb Mendel Roth, a popular chasidic singer and longtime resident of Ashdod. “I ran downstairs to the bomb shelter along with...

How prepared are our daughters for their financial future? That is a question that has bothered me for decades. As a Bais Yaakov high school mechaneches and administrator, I have long felt that girls’...

The State of the State: For Orthodox Jewish Leaders There’s Plenty of Room for Dining We all have what to be grateful for. President Trump is grateful that he finally gets to put the Mueller Report...

When my brother’s wife, Tziri, called me and said that my brother had left her I was blindsided and totally shocked. I’d always thought that Yossi’s marriage was on solid ground. I had no...

With a flourish, my husband sets the shopping bag on the table and extracts a box of rugelach. “You can’t say that I’m stingy. I got an extra-large package for Shabbos. That should be...

On Pesach, The New York Times published an anti-Semitic cartoon in its international edition. The distasteful image depicted a blind US President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke, being pulled along by a dog with...

It had been a rough winter for Perele, my fourth child and only daughter. She was just 11 months old, but she had already suffered a bout of strep and a double ear infection,...

A Deadly Rain of Missiles Why did the Palestinians start another murderous conflict now? About 700 missiles streaked over the border from Gaza into Israel in a period of just two days this week, fired by...

Being a baal teshuvah isn’t easy, as author Jenny Serle explains in her new book Balanced Teshuvah: “As baalei teshuvah exit the safe cocoon of their initial exposure to the warmth and beauty of Judaism,...