Lettuce, Sweet Potato, and Apple Salad

Sweet potato pairs perfectly with the other salad ingredients, making this a healthy burst of color and flavor. Salad 2 tablespoons oil 1 small sweet potato, peeled and cubed ½ teaspoon salt 1 head lettuce or 1 (8-oz) bag...

Spiralized Apple Crisp

6 red apples, either Fuji, Cortland, or Honeycrisp, spiralized on the second to largest setting 1 teaspoon cinnamon ⅓ cup orange juice ¼ cup brown sugar For the crumble: 1 cup almond flour 1 cup rolled oats ½ cup brown sugar 1...

Belgian Waffle

½ tablespoon light brown sugar 1 tablespoon honey 1¾ teaspoons active dry yeast ⅓ cup lukewarm milk (stick it in the microwave for 30 seconds and let cool; if it’s too hot, it will kill your yeast) 2 cups all-purpose...

The Hidden Palace of the Chashmona’im // The Owner of a Modern Home Where...

It’s early on a Friday morning, and a crystal clear, blue sky fills the heavens over Yerushalayim. The buildings on the Har Habayis reflect the sun’s rays in all directions. In the background, the tens...

It’s Greek To Me! // An Interview with the noted Greek Scholar, Professor David...

It happens every semester. Bar-Ilan University students sign up for a course in classical Greek or Latin. They enter the classroom on the first day, get a good look at Professor David Schaps, with...

A New Look at the Menorah of the Arch of Titus // A...

Name the top ten worst historical enemies of the Jews—that is, the individuals who did the worst violence to the Jewish people. No matter how you rank the people on your list, somewhere on...

Lighting the Way // In search of my mother

I knew it would be difficult, but it never occurred to me that it would be close to impossible. I had, after all, rehearsed the scene many times in my mind. I’d even written...

The Life Of the Rosh Yeshivah // Rav Aharon Yehudah Leib Shteinman, zt’’l

Late Monday night, after our Chanukah issue went to print, the sad besurah reached us from Eretz Hakodesh about the petirah of the gadol hador and rosh yeshivah, Maran Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, zt”l....

Leaving No Jew Behind // A Visit With the World-Renowned Singer Avraham Fried

"If words are the pen of the heart,” the Alter Rebbe, Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi, taught, “then song is the pen of the soul.” It is perhaps for that reason that I enjoy...

A Personal Miracle // Chani Weinroth Inspired the Healthy and the Sick

Those were among the last words of Chani Weinroth, a”h, who published a monumental book called B’eretz Hachayim (In the Land of the Living), in which she described her coping with cancer, raising three...