The following article, which you may or may not end up reading, is about my experience—and a few other people’s experiences—with bee venom. It’s not my first about apitherapy to appear in these pages...

2.2 pounds (1 kg or 7⅓ cups) flour 2 tablespoons dry yeast 5 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon salt 2 to 2¼ cups warm water ½ cup oilSesame seeds (optional) Egg wash: 2 eggs 2 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons strong tea (steep a teabag in...

Oscar Joseph Leschziner (aka Otto Slater) was born to observant Jewish parents, but he spurned religious life from an early age on. Although his father was a kosher baker from the German town of...

Elisheva Ryps stared at her name on the letter board under the black awning. After six months of singing at various talent nights and young artist’s venues in Cape Town, South Africa, she had...

1 bag medium lukshen, cooked and drained (don’t rinse) 2 cup confectioners’ sugar ½ cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ cup oil ½ teaspoon cinnamon 6 eggs Topping: ½ cup ground almonds 3 tablespoons sugar ½ cup bread crumbs ½ teaspoon...

While I’ve been in the Bayit Vegan home of Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi before, the venerable rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Ateres Yisrael and distinguished member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, this is the first...

To my surprise and delight, on this crystal-clear summer day outside the Jerusalem home of Rav Shalom Arush I happen upon his renowned disciple, Rabbi Lazer Brody, who translated his master’s sefer Gan Shel...

‘‘There was once a young chasidishe bachur who was wandering around the unseemly areas of Yerushalayim. When some askanim came to tell my father about it, he asked to meet with the bachur. The...

Wrapped in his mother’s shawl as a substitute for a tallis, Moishele Kraus started singing as a little boy—and proceeded to sing for the next nine decades. At the age of nine, he sang...

Who speaks for the Jews? Open any Israeli newspaper, including the most left-wing, and you’ll find that amidst the pronouncements of secular movers and shakers are numerous comments from religious Jews, some of them...