It’s an extreme example, albeit a cautionary one: In 1998, the water supply of Camelford (a town located in North Cornwall, England) became dangerously...

My friend’s husband has two left hands, so of course she’s the one who pointed out to me the unfairness of our sukkah situation. “Your...

It is Tuesday, Rosh Chodesh Elul, when my wife and I pay a visit to the Jerusalem home of Rav Yitzchok and Rebbetzin Rivka...

Vivian Peretz has not so recently turned 70, but you would never guess it. She is full of life and overflows with energy, keeping...

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...

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....

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...

Rav Yosef Sholom Kahanaman, the famed Ponovezher Rav, is said to have quipped after his vast travels across the globe to raise funds for...

The truth is that our intelligence services know much more about global warming and hurricane risks than our weathermen do, but no one knows...

man was wearing a cap with NYPD markings on it. He had a police shield, mace and handcuffs, he said he was a police...

“The Kotel Hamaaravi is the last remnant of our Beit Hamikdash,” Rav Shlomo Moshe Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi of Yerushalayim tells me during...

I confess: Although I aim to be broadminded and egalitarian, in many situations I ultimately find myself to be unequivocally parochial and ethnocentric, no...

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...

“Ican’t really pray,” an old friend wrote to me this week in an email. “My efforts to forgive and ask forgiveness, such as they...

Mrs. Beilinson, the first-grade teacher, was concerned. “Alex is doing a lot of spacing out during class,” she told his mother on the phone. “It...

Rebbetzin Bashy Bleich is a down-to-earth, easygoing woman who grew up in Monsey, New York. At the behest of the Stoliner Rebbe, she and...

Some people enjoy a sweet side dish, and others, like myself, think that these totally belong in the dessert course. Mini apple crumb pies...

The inhabitants of the island of Antigua watched nervously as Hurricane Irma approached. The massive storm came and passed, and the prime minister announced...

Only once before did such an event occur: One after the other, the gedolim of Eretz Yisrael came to the Beis Talmud Torah Y’chaveh...

My name is Esther Malka, but it used to be Emily. I was born in 1953 in a town on the border of Illinois...