Ruth Yael
 Those long, hot, summer Sabbath days are just around the corner. Days for relaxing with family and friends, reading, resting and recharging our batteries for the work week ahead. These days call for lite – but still festive – lunch menus....
 A lot of gentiles don’t understand what kosher food is all about. They think it’s just restrictive religious law, that it doesn’t matter and it’s just a waste of time. Well it isn’t! Kosher food is, to quote the title, “Kleaner Food.�...
Living in the U.S., I know very little about the Jewish Music scene in other countries with the exception of Israel. It’s interesting to note ( pun intended?) that 2 orthodox Rabbis have been jazzing up the Jewish Music scene in Manchester.Their...
Question: An old friend of the family just passed away as a outcome of a tragic accident. What is the Jewish way to help build sense of all of that? Answer: As the years pass, we witness death many times, but the passing of a close friend is different...
I have self-hating jewish parents…what shall I do….they hate their judaism (they are in their 50’s and felt this way all their lives ) any suggestions ? Post by Michael Read More →
 A. The pure, simple, unadorned word “Challah� means “a loaf of bread.� However, in Halachic terms, the word Challah has a very specific definition, and colloquially, it came to mean a certain type of bread thousands of years later. B. The Halachic...
A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism. It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish...
 Judaism recognized the concept of “no-fault” divorce thousands of years ago. Judaism has always accepted divorce as a fact of life, albeit an unfortunate one. Judaism generally maintains that it is better for a couple to divorce than...
 “Bar Mitzvah” literally means “son of the commandment.” “Bar” is “son” in Aramaic, which used to be the vernacular of the Jewish people. “Mitzvah” is “commandment” in both Hebrew...
Auschwitz Museum files official complaint to Israel protesting Israeli visitors’ need to talk on cellular phones inside camp Honoring the memory of the Holocaust victims is not as important as the Israelis’ need to talk on cellular phones,...
