Gathering to Strengthen Ourselves // What the Nekadeish Asifah Changed
On the evening of Wednesday, June 22 (following a similar Yiddish-speaking event, which took place a night earlier), over 20,000 women gathered at the...
My Daughter Is Too Much Like Me—The Way I Used to Be
Dear Rabbi Taub:
Thank you for this new column and for giving us the opportunity to ask parenting questions. My question is as follows:
My seven-year-old...
Inside War-torn Ukraine
Ukraine is a country I have visited often, from yearly trips to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, to summers volunteering to help Jewish kids in...
Would the End of the Filibuster Lead to Chaos? // The Senate’s strange custom...
Cast your eyes over the makeup of the US Senate in the years since the late 1970s, and you’ll see that, with few exceptions,...
Ari Zinger // Ben & Jerry’s Israel
Ari Zinger just wanted to run his ice cream business. As the founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel, Ari has built...
Unfriends of the Court // Politics hath no fury like secularists scorned
Orthodox Jews involved in the public sphere know well what it’s like to have their positions angrily attacked and their words misrepresented. And so,...
Epiphany On July Fourth // You are what you wear
The day was Saturday, July 4, 1999, in the heart of the Midwest, the celebration as American as baseball and apple pie. Folks sat...
Focaccia Dinners // The Meat Eater
Serves: 2
Ingredients
1 recipe focaccia dough (see recipe on page 18)
1 kilo asado (short ribs), bone in
2 tablespoons plus 4 teaspoons olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon...
An Emissary of Gedolei Yisrael // A conversation with Rabbi Yitzchok Goldknopf
After spending a considerable amount of time a few weeks ago in the Jerusalem office of Rabbi Yitzchok Goldknopf, the recent announcement that he...
CAN YOU BRING A GUN ON THE SUBWAY NOW?
On any list of the most hot-button topics in American life these days, the question of gun control will be toward the top. One...
APLICATIONS
Good for Good
Shaya and Libby Engel, both teachers, had flown from Los Angeles to the East Coast for the 2017 Torah Umesorah convention in the Poconos....
