I was busy preparing for Shabbos on an ordinary Friday afternoon when my friend called me up all excited. She and another friend were going to Miami for two days and asked me to...

In a 35-page decision issued last Wednesday by Judge Leo Glasser, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed a lawsuit filed by YAFFED (Young Advocates for Fair Education) challenging...

10 ounces baby kale or 16 ounces romaine lettuce 1 English cucumber, diced ¼ cup Craisins ½ red onion, diced 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced Celery Dressing 3 celery stalks 1 small onion 1 cup oil ½ cup vinegar ½ cup sugar 2 teaspoons mustard 1½...

Plants make way more practical pets than do animals. Which is why, when I saw a pineapple plant at the garden center last spring, I brought one home. It had a cute little mini...

Date Cake 4 cups medjool dates, pitted and chopped 3 cups boiling water 3 teaspoons baking soda 1¼ cups (2½ sticks) margarine 2 cups brown sugar 6 eggs 3 cups self-rising flour 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon Preheat oven to 325ºF. Grease two...

Welcome your guests by starting off the meal with a hot salad. This one is quick, easy, and delicious. Frying the chicken skins is a great way to add crunch to the salad. 16 ounces...

Time continued to pass as the afternoon prayers dragged on for what was beginning to feel like an eternity. The locals didn’t seem to mind being stuck in the supermarket, but I was slowly...

It turns out, there are no direct flights to McAllen from any airport up and down the East Coast (aside from the president’s flight departing from Joint Base Andrews). The only way for me...

Mottel Rosengarten*: I met Yisroel Dovid Klein more than 20 years ago, on my first Friday night in NYU Hospital. “With a name like Rosengarten, you must be Jewish,” he’d said to me after poking...

Ring, ring. We’re sitting on the beach, my new husband of several months and I. It’s a glorious day, the sky a brilliant Mediterranean blue, the sea a dazzling shade of green. We’re the only...