This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. My mom serves matzah ball soup every Friday night (#momgoals), and she’s always made it in the oven. When I left home and found myself without my weekly fix, I called her for the recipe and followed suit. I didn’t realize that this was unusual until I was […]
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This story originally appeared on Alma. “Did you see the email?” My Jewish friend was typing her response. I was checking my heart rate. “Not surprising. Also, like, not really something you want to see on your lunch break,” she texted back. We were talking about the latest anti-Semitic hate crime that occurred on campus: […]
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Photo Credit: GPO Shimon Peres (2-R) with then IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan (R), Prime Minister David Ben Gurion (2-L), Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kolleck (L), from 1958. Wednesday was the 133rd birthday of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of the Israeli Government. David Ben […]
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This story originally appeared on Kveller. Last month, when my teenage daughter, Elana, told me she had something important to discuss, I assumed she wanted something any typical suburban teen might want: a later curfew or a new iPhone. Instead, to my horror, she told me she wanted a nose job. She said she’d felt […]
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Photo Credit: Fire and Rescue Regional Spokesperson Forest fire at Geva’ot in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, November 2016 More than 100 wildfires spread across Lebanon on Tuesday, burning hundreds of thousands of acres of forest land due to the sudden heat wave and strong winds that struck the Middle East. Although there weren’t enough […]
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(JTA) — Andrea Wedner remembers Oct. 27, 2018 in detail. She picked up her mother, Rose Mallinger, to go to Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, a quiet neighborhood in Pittsburgh. They got there early, as they liked to do, and talked with fellow synagogue members before the service started […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Rav Avraham Gershon of Kitov was a scholar in the beis medrash of Brodi. This modest and unassuming man possessed such wondrous qualities that the great Nodah B’Yehudah, in a responsum, referred to him, in part, as, “The complete and all-encompassing scholar, the hallowed pious one, light of Israel, the pillar […]
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press I am a big believer in “sheet pan” meals. These were first made famous by Sarah Lasry, cookbook author and former restaurant owner. Cooking dinner on a baking sheet is easy, all-in one, and involves zero cleanup – Especially if you use a disposable cookie sheet, like I do. The food […]
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