Unlike Florida, no one wore a costume and all the men dress as they do year-round, black suit, white shirt, black hat and grayish to whitish beard. Until the grass gets greener, the flowers bloom and ...

"To receive but not to give is, in Jewish geography as well as Jewish psychology, simply not life," said Rabbi Jonathan Sachs ...

We have just passed the Jewish holiday of Purim, a time to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who saved the Jewish people ...

Wherever we travel, wherever we find ourselves in this vast world, all we have to do is pay attention, look around, maybe put ...

The folk singer Tom Lehrer penned a famous ditty in which he alluded to spending Jewish holidays in places where the name of ...

Each of my children has different strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles. With Hashem’s help, they will all find their own individual paths.

Tisa, which this year was also Purim Meshulash, the grand Melave Malka benefitting Keren Chaya Mushka was held for the twenty ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

Helen Ready’s 1971 women’s liberation anthem, “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar,” comes to mind when I think of Purim. Remember Esther ...

Chabad of Manhasset transported guests back in time with a “Purim in Persia” celebration at the Starry Ballroom.

Photos and story by Robert Kalfus This year’s Purim festivities at Chabad of Yonkers saw people dressed in all individual ...

Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a ...