Posted on 12/08/2019 by Moshe Daniel Levine in Holidays

About a month ago I was ordering a latte at a local coffee shop. The barista, a 40ish year-old man, asked if I minded a...

Posted on 12/08/2019 by Marcia Goldlist in Beliefs and Practices

We all spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for a light to change, waiting for a bus or ride to come, waiting for a class to...

Posted on 12/04/2019 by Rivkah Lambert Adler in Israel

Turns out, comedian, actress and writer Tiffany Haddish has a Jewish father. In a recent interview on the Jimmy Fallon show,...

Posted on 12/03/2019 by Moshe Daniel Levine in Israel

For roughly 1,000 years a temple stood on top of the Temple Mount in the center of Jerusalem. This temple was the center of...

Posted on 12/03/2019 by Rabbi Yaakov Bieler in Beliefs and Practices

In the third paragraph of a prayer that is recited on Shabbat immediately after the Haftorah is completed, but before the...

Posted on 12/03/2019 by Marcia Goldlist in Beliefs and Practices

I kid you not, December 4th is National Cookie Day. (I’m not sure if Cookie Day is celebrated in countries other than...