When the late Lord and Lady Jakobovits, z’’l, hosted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for dinner one Chol Hamoed Sukkos at the official residence of the chief rabbi, they served homemade chicken soup and gefilte...

“No one could refuse him,” says Rabbi Berel Wein. “He wasn’t just a little shrimpy rabbi like me when I was starting out. Everyone was constitutionally unable to say no to him. The vice...

“Once you get me talking about my job,” says Rivka Teich, CSR, RPR, RMR and FCRR (whew!), “I could go on forever.” Now in her 19th year as a court reporter, Rivka’s choice of...

“I dream about noodle kugel. Crispy and sweet, with browned edges that has a satisfying crunch. My mother’s lokshen kugel, my favorite delicacy.” The food in state prisons, especially the kosher menu, is so drab...

2015 Cradling my newborn son in my arms, I struggled with whether or not to attend his bris. The minhag of my family is that the mother stays home, but I also felt that I...

“I feel like I’m the representative of Medinat Yisrael, am Yisrael and Torat Yisrael,” Joel Lion tells me during our recent conversation about his appointment as Israel’s new ambassador to Ukraine. “That’s what I...

Mr. Seltzer was brought into the hospital as what we staff members lovingly referred to as a “dump.” That meant that someone had brought him to the emergency room not because he had a...

Not so many years ago, if you wanted kosher chicken for supper, you’d walk to your local butcher shop, where they’d shecht a chicken and give it to you, still warm a, and you’d...

…And what is the reason that He did not make it to rain Because there was no man…to recognize the benefits of rains….And when Adam came…he prayed for them and they descended. —...

1 cup diced Spanish onions 4 cups diced pastrami Salt and ground black pepper, to taste 4 spring roll skins Oil, for deep-frying Barbecue sauce, for garnish Roasted Tomatoes 8 cherry tomatoes on the vine Olive oil 4 garlic cloves, minced Salt, to taste Ground...