What's the punishment for failing to fulfill the obligation of telling the Passover story? The answer, Joseph Lowin explains, is found in the root of a Hebrew word.

Making a profit or slicing challah, with nuance.

Honoring innovators, clean slates and new olim.

Diving into the Hebrew root that never stops giving.

Linking wine, childbirth and the weather.

There is a time for everything, declares Ecclesiastes, teaching us that there is עֵת סְפ֖וֹד וְעֵת רְקֽוֹד (et sipod ve-et rikod) “a time to mourn

This Purim, let's join Queens Esther and Vashti and the Queen of Sheba as well as a few kings.

A princess, a guardian angel and a Zionist folk hero.