This past Shavuot, Yona Baumel, eighty-one, returned his soul to his Creator, without his son Zecharya having been returned to him. Zecharya and five other soldiers were missing after the chaotic… 0

Memories of a Third-Generation American Assimilated Jew and How She Found Her Way Back to the Land Her Soul Calls Home My father doesn’t sit and say Tehillim, humming the words the way his father did.… 0

Although potato latkes are a traditional Chanukah treat, why not experiment this year by making latkes with other vegetables? With the recipes below, you can enjoy a different kind of latke every… 0

In the latter part of the twentieth century, American Jewry witnessed a fascinating phenomenon: the teshuvah movement. Suddenly, there were hundreds of ba’alei teshuvah—returnees to Judaism—Jews who… 0

Flipping Out I really enjoy your publication. However, I was quite surprised when I read the review by Shana Yocheved Schacter of Flipping Out (summer 2009). I understand that many of the issues… 0

During the past year, the Jewish world has been rocked by devastating news about financial improprieties. We have watched in horror as the story of Bernie Madoff unfolded; while not observant himself,… 0

I grew up in a home where we usually watched Saturday morning cartoons on television, where we often ate chazir, where we sometimes opened presents set under a Christmas tree. In the context of… 0

Meditations at Sixty: One Person, Under God, Indivisible (Kashrut, Modesty, Mourning, Prayer and Love) By Eliyahu Safran Ktav Publishing House Jersey City, New Jersey, 2008 199 pages Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu… 0

Mark My Words! By Mark Hasten with Peter Weisz Brotchin Books Indianapolis, 2004 391 pages I was skeptical when I picked up the autobiography of Mark Hasten, Mark My Words! I had never heard of… 0

. . . IN THIS LIES THE SECRET of the table [in the Tabernacle of the desert]. For since the time that the world came into existence, God’s blessing did not create something from nothing: instead the… 0