Laurence Jossel opens Nopa Fish, Jewish Food Festival gears up, and Einat Admony offers Yalla Falafel in the Bay Area.

Nearly two years since Oct. 7, the instinct to try to right unspeakable wrongs has pursued the Jewish people in every moment ...

Salvador Litvak’s whodunit takes viewers far away from the familiar geography of traditional Judaism — and deep into ...

Sometimes we forget what rituals really mean until we are smack in the middle of one.

The Jewish worldview as it relates to small behaviors is mirrored and matched when we consider Chinese culture. Classical Chinese arts like calligraphy, Tai Chi, brush painting, and flower arranging ...

During the three weeks before the 9th of Av, the challenge is not to retrieve an intact past. It is about building a future ...

In 2024, they made up about 14% of Canada’s active Armed Forces, even though they represent less than 1% of the country’s ...

We daven together in synagogues that feel familiar whether we’re in Toronto or Tel Aviv. We mourn together when tragedy strikes and we celebrate together when a lost hostage comes home or an aliyah ...

The time is described as “between the straits.” The phrase “in the narrow places” comes from Lamentations 1:3. It’s a direct ...

Societies are born from war and cooperation it requires and creates, with altruism at its core, so the establishment of any nations and great states ...

The people who write in this book are all wounded souls. Gone forever is the glib and certain faith that they may once have had, and in its place are the scars and the aches that will never go away.

On a desert cliff named Sinai – its exact location now lost – Hashem gave us the Torah. Years later, upon the twin peaks of Gerizim and Eival in northern Israel, we reenacted Sinai. This mountain ...