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Ethel G. Hofman | JNS
Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year — falls this year on the evening of Sept. 11: the 25th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks that rocked America and the world. And it’s Shabbat to boot. That means a trifecta of events that will bring the Jewish community together, physical...
By Rabbi David Levin
Nobody is sacrificed on either morning. We move past that faster than it deserves.
The knife stops. The well appears. Both boys grow up and become something. Ishmael is promised 12 princes and a great nation. When he dies, the Torah uses the identical phrase it gave Abraham eight verses earlier, vayigva vayamot vay...
For years, the kosher wine world mostly knew Piedmont, Italy, as a source for sweet, low-alcohol Moscato in a blue bottle. Barolo, the region’s famous red wine, was rarely available in high-quality kosher options.
That has changed. Excellent kosher Barolos are now availabl...
Lisa Donna Kasser, the longtime owner and director of Burn Brae Day Camp of Creative Arts, who created a welcoming place where generations of children could explore the arts and find acceptance, died Aug. 14 in Philadelphia. She was 69.
For 45 years, Kasser shaped the Dresher-area camp around a conviction that children did not have ...
At James Asher Caplan’s funeral, the chapel at Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Funeral Directors was filled with his artwork.
The colorful paintings had covered the walls of Caplan’s room during the final years of his life. His wife and sons brought them to the funeral home and invited mourners to take one home.
“If you want a...