Rock of Ages let our song, Praise thy saving power; Thou amidst the raging foes, Wast our sheltering tower.
Q. Recently my father asked me to sign some “routine family documents.” Afterwards I discovered that he tricked me into transferring him some very valuable assets! I find it hard to respect him now. Do I still have to honor him? BL A. Most of us recall that honoring parents is one of the Ten…
Dear Rosie & Sherry, I’ve been divorced for 6 years and am recovering financially and emotionally. I’m dating with serious intent, and have found a woman who lives in another part of the country. We’ve met and have spent hours talking on the phone. We both have children, but mine are mostly adolescent or grown…
I never heard of couscous before I came to Israel. I heard of kasha, roast potatoes with onions, kugel, but not couscous. My wife introduced me to this delicacy. Couscous is a North African specialty. Many people think they’re eating rice at first glance. It is made of durum wheat and water just like any…
Adi Huja, 16, observed the second anniversary of the terrorist bombing which almost took her life, at Hadassah Hospital preparing to undergo her 26th operation. On that fateful Saturday night two years ago, Adi and her friends had gone to eat ice cream sundaes at a café on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall. Two Arab…
Minister Natan Sharansky should be commended for his recent article discussing the imperative for the State of Israel to focus greater attention and resources on a major issue facing North American Jewry: Israel’s image on university campuses. As students across North America are working hard to promote Israel on campus, they are not only battling…
There is one country in the world that ended the 20th century with more trees than it began with; a country that has devoted over a century to reforestation and greening the land. I’m not talking about the United States or Liechtenstein. In the beginning of the 1900s, this country’s indigenous forests were just about…
Dear Rosie & Sherry, Jewish dating sites are now very popular, and even the norm. Meeting this way has raised some questions for me that do not come up otherwise. So I’m wondering: After how many dates should I remove my profile? When should I expect the other person to do the same? What if…
Chicken wings are good value — inexpensive, abundant, and tasty. I buy them frozen, but I’m told the fresh ones are tastier. Wings in general come with the tips already cut off, but if not, just cut them off at the joint. Feathers that are left on the wings can be taken off easily after…
I’m sure the Fines have completely forgotten about me. They would no doubt be surprised to discover how often I think of them. After all, our relationship was brief and fleeting — my family and I slept in their home one Shabbos, and then we parted ways. That visit, though, gave me a vision which…
Many years ago, residents of Mishmar HaEmek held a meeting to discuss why the sons who left the kibbutz were not returning. The elderly Yaakov Hazan rejected the argument that the community’s physical state needed improvement and summed his views with one sentence: “We failed in the effort to establish a secular Jewish society.” I…