admin | September 23, 2022
Doesnt the Rosh Hashanah seder look fun, fresh and appetizing? Just ignore the fish head glaring at you from the middle. Courtesy of iStock By Mira FoxSeptember 22, 2022 Everyone knows about the Passover Seder.
admin | September 23, 2022
Two years ago, Savion Raz moved from northern Israel to the most expensive neighborhood in the most expensive city in the world, Tel Aviv. She rents an apartment with her partner in one of the 11 towers that make up Park Tsameret, a kind of luxury oasis that once attracted model Bar Refaeli and diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz. She pays 15,000 shekels (about $4,365) for four rooms
admin | September 23, 2022
BSDVolume 36, No. 5028 Elul 5782September 24, 2022 Sponsored bythe Greengart and Lerman familiesin memory of their fatherZvi ben Ben Zion ah (Harry Greengart) Nancy & David Broth and Rona & Aaron Lernerin memory of their motherElinor Cohn ah Manny and Loretta Sadwinon the yahrzeit of her fatherAlter Eliezer Yitzchak ben Litman ah The Shemittah year is about to end. R Mordechai Eliyahu zl (1929-2010; Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel) writes: I have long wondered why the commentators devote more effort to discovering the reasons for the Mitzvah of Shemittah than those of other Mitzvot.
admin | September 2, 2022
Fall means back to school, and while we may not be returning to lessons in a classroom, there's still plenty of fun things to learnas in the cornucopia of new seasons of cooking shows premiering on WTTW over the next couple months! Learn about what's coming below, and don't forget to keep checking back on WTTW's Food siteor sign up for our food newsletter, Deep Dish, for recipes from these shows and more! Friday, September 2 at 9:00 pm To celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 70th year on the throne this year, legendary London department store Fortnum & Mason held a competition to crown a new pudding in honor of the queen.
admin | September 2, 2022
The World Premiere of Michael Shapiro's VOICES is set to take place at New York City's famed Central Synagogue, Thursday, November 10, 2022 (652 Lexington Avenue, E. 55th Street)
admin | September 2, 2022
Simona Cerrato/Flickr The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land by Graciela Mochkofsky (trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman); Knopf, 288 pp., $30 Most people think that scripture is a noun, but its actually a verb. That is, scripture is an event, a relational activity
admin | September 2, 2022
Danny,already in his mid-40s,decidedto move to Jerusalem,Israel andenroll inayeshiva.Having never receivedan extensive Jewish education,he was overwhelmed by thelarge number ofTorahlawsthathe wasentirelyunaware of.He was particularlyintriguedbytheagricultural laws of the Sabbatical year(shemitah),which apply this year (5782),and dedicated most of his energy tostudying these laws.Then,heembarked on thestudy of thefinancialaspectof the Sabbatical year, namely, thecancellationof all debts with the conclusion ofshemitah, with the onset of thenew yearon Rosh Hashanah.Thecancellationcan beavertedby signing a special form called aProzbol. Danny panicked,as he had recalled collecting a loan of $50,000 after the last Sabbatical year some seven years ago.The loan was collected from his friend Stanley, and Danny was not in a financial position to return the sum.As he was then unaware of the laws ofshemitah, he had not prepared aProzbolform to allow collecting the debt. Danny and theyeshivas rabbinical staffconsulted with our Bet Din to determine whetherhe needs to return the money toStanley
admin | August 30, 2022
NUR-SULTAN The Kazakh capital is entering its final stages of preparation for the seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, which will be held on Sept. 14-15, reported the Foreign Ministrys press service on Aug. 27.
admin | August 30, 2022
I love okra. Like, in an Im in a deeply committed relationship with okra kind of way
admin | August 27, 2022
Editors note: Excerpted from the new three-volume set, Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings, the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish People edited by Gil Troy, to be published this August marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress.
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