Holidays
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For most Jews, a sukkah conjures a booth with canvas or wooden walls, and bamboo or some sort of foliage on top as schach . Sarah Sassoon, 42, had a very different experience. … more
Sukkot is akin to a Jewish Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving in America, no matter religion or background, families and friends come together to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass., … more
Pesach commemorates events that clearly defined our people’s history and purpose. So, when I happened upon a commentary on a Haggadah whose author’s name brings to mind events in my past, … more
As the light of Chanukah fills our homes, it will be hard to avoid making connections between the thousands-year-old story of Jews fighting oppression in their homeland and current events that tell a … more
Chanukah is here! I am excited. Like a kid, I get excited over this holiday because, as a kid, it meant that I would see my paternal grandparents for almost a whole day and that all my cousins would … more
Purim, which is celebrated on the 14th of Adar (this year, 14 Adar II, starting on motzei Shabbat on March 24) commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman’s plot to kill … more
This week’s column is focused on the teachings of Rav Shalom Noach Berezovsky zt’’l, the Slonimer Rebbe, in translation and interpretation by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein in his … more
A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box of kosher-for-Passover soup mandle off the shelf and started to … more
As we enter Adar I, with Purim five weeks away, I’m pleased to present   excerpts from an online interview with Dr. Erica Brown, author of “Esther: Power, Fate, and Fragility in … more
Every time 17-year-old Adrian Maydanich passed grocery-store shelves overflowing with kosher-for-Passover food in his Baltimore community, he stopped in his tracks. He could not stop thinking of … more
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