Vivian Peretz has not so recently turned 70, but you would never guess it. She is full of life and overflows with energy, keeping herself very occupied as an artist and beautician. Her home...

1 large cabbage head Filling: 1½ pounds chopped meat ½ cup uncooked rice 1 medium onion, grated 1 egg 1½ tablespoons ketchup ½ teaspoon salt Sauce: 1 (46 oz.) can tomato juice 1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce 1 cup water ½ cup brown sugar ¼ cup...

2 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar ¾ cup oil 5 apples, peeled and thinly sliced 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla Cinnamon, for sprinkling 1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. 2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, flour, sugar, oil, apples,...

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 oil Sesame seeds (optional) Egg wash: 2 eggs 2 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons strong tea (steep a teabag in...

Rav Yosef Sholom Kahanaman, the famed Ponovezher Rav, is said to have quipped after his vast travels across the globe to raise funds for his yeshivah in Bnei Brak, “Every place on the globe...

The truth is that our intelligence services know much more about global warming and hurricane risks than our weathermen do, but no one knows it. Maybe we don’t want to know that the world...

man was wearing a cap with NYPD markings on it. He had a police shield, mace and handcuffs, he said he was a police officer, and he was trying to enter the Young Israel...

“The Kotel Hamaaravi is the last remnant of our Beit Hamikdash,” Rav Shlomo Moshe Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi of Yerushalayim tells me during a recent visit to his home. “It is the place...

I confess: Although I aim to be broadminded and egalitarian, in many situations I ultimately find myself to be unequivocally parochial and ethnocentric, no universalist by any means, despite my best aspirations. Translated into...

It's a bit of a daunting undertaking to try to describe a Yemenite shofar, or any shofar for that matter. But the best description I’ve ever seen was undoubtedly an ad that had been...