A Dreidel ’Round Your Wrist In a rainbow of colors and designs—from the alef-bet to Noah’s Ark and its pairs of animals—Biblical Bandz are sweeping the tween-to-teen

I recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was a

At the elite Prozdor Hebrew High School in New York, I asked a class of 20 students—the cream of the Conservative movement’s crop—how many of

Click the mouse to bring a three-dimensional human figure onto the screen. Click again, and the figure rotates. Another click, and the skin melts off

A Side Trip I was hoping to find mention in “The Jewish Traveler: Zikhron Ya’akov” (June/July issue) of the Meir Shfeyah Youth Aliyah Village located

The season is changing and the New Year is right around the corner. And so is the time for setting new paths and purposes. As

In Jewish life, we frequently use physical objects to engage in God’s mitzvot, but while these rituals are transitory, the objects are not. In most

In the season of atonement, what is our soul’s aspiration? How do we understand the responsibility of return, the task of teshuva with which we have