Category: Aish

In 2006, Nora Ephron published a collection of essays entitled I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. Women of a certain age flocked to purchase it. While the essays were well-written and engaging, the real appeal was in the title. Every woman in midlife feels bad about her neck!…

Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg died last Monday, Jan. 23. The German-born rebbetzin, a universally well-respected advocate of women’s rights and domestic abuse awareness in the Jewish community, was the wife of Ner Israel Rabbinical College’s late rosh yeshiva (dean), Rabbi Yaakov S. Weinberg. Her late father, Rabbi Yaacov Yitzchok Ruderman, was the yeshiva’s founder and first…

In recent years, the Holocaust has been subject to an increasingly sickening blend of ruthless politicization, deliberate distortion, crass commercialization and an often abject sentimentalism. More ominously, it has also become a weapon of choice for many of Israel’s worst enemies and for a resurgent anti-Semitism which brands the entire enterprise of Holocaust memory as…

Halvah Baklava yields 10-12 servings My all-time favorite stop in Machane Yehuda and in the new Sarona Market in Tel Aviv is Halva Kingdom. I think I have sampled all 60 flavors, or maybe that’s just the dream. This business was founded in 1947 by the grandfather of the current shop owner, Eli Maman. After…

Taylor Force, murdered by an Arab terrorist in Jaffa this week, was an American hero. A graduate of West Point, he served as a Field Artillery Officer in the US Army from 2009 until 2014, serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In his Linked In profile, Taylor describes the grueling nature of his five years…

Funfetti Cheesecake Hamantashen, Pecan Pie Hamantashen, Pulled Brisket Hamantashen!! The list goes on and on and on. I can barely get to my important emails as my inbox is crowded with new and innovative hamantashen recipes! What should I make this year? How can I possibly keep up with all the possibilities? Should I even…

Try these super healthy Purim recipes that symbolize unity and joy and they taste good too! I live in an “international” building in Jerusalem with Jews whose ancestry traces back to immigration from many different countries, including 12th generation Yerushalmis. So when it comes to recipes for mishloach manos we like to celebrate the unity…

Dear Emuna, My older daughter (16) is always telling her younger sister (10) how stupid she is or clumsy or incompetent, just constantly insulting her. It really hurts my younger daughter’s feelings but I don’t know how to stop it. Do you have any ideas? Distraught Mom Dear Distraught, This is actually a situation where…

Gavriel Glenney, née Clayton, grew up in Bradenton, Florida in a devout Christian home. His parents were Evangelical Christians, always in search of truth and sharing their faith with others. Gavriel participated in missionary youth groups and was taught that, as a servant of God, his job was to teach his religion to others, especially…

The Auburn Tigers are going to the Final Four, the coveted final rounds of the annual March Madness, NCAA College Championship Basketball.  For the first time, three of the final four teams have Jewish head coaches, a statistical unlikelihood. But for Auburn’s Coach, Bruce Pearl, being in the spotlight as a Jew is much more…