And the voice called to me from heaven. "Dovi," it said, in an oddly mechanical tone, "just where do you think you're going? Get back on the Hutchinson River Parkway right away!" Read More

My grandfather came to me and said, "Avi"-that was my name in those days-"Avi, you have to understand that our family is not without its blemishes." Read More

Judaism is about so much more than eating humus, serving in the IDF, and speaking Hebrew, however important these things may be. Read More

A search of Nosair's New Jersey apartment revealed his handwritten diary, which called for "jihad against the enemies of Islam" by "destroying the structure of their civilized pillars, their high world buildings which they are proud of." Read More

"My father! My real father is coming? Didn't you say that my family is dead and that my parents would never be coming back?" Read More

Thanks to the Internet, OK Kosher Certification is now able to offer more information and education on kosher issues than at any previous time in its 68-year history. Read More

So I asked this rabbi what kind of a rabbi he is, and he said: Unorthodox. Unorthodox! Yes! The most descriptive term I have heard for real Judaism! Read More

Every time we convert good will into good works-whether it's by tutoring or mentoring a child, feeding someone hungry, building a house, or otherwise addressing a problem that's bigger than ourselves-we strengthen the fabric of the country. Read More

It's Friday afternoon, which to a Lubavitch kid means it's time for mivtzoim, or "campaigning." Lubavitch schools typically end for the week by noon Friday, releasing students for an afternoon of street outreach. Read More

The people who brought G-d to the world don't have much to do with Him. Perhaps the saddest aspect of modern Jewish life is how unimportant G-d is to most Jews. Read More

Once, tuna fishing thrived on the Pacific coast of the United States. Pioneered by adventurers straight out of the novels of Herman Melville and "Papa" Hemingway, it blossomed into a major industry, employing thousands and filling countless American lunchboxes. Read More

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, later known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, writes in his private journal concerning two traits that make a moral and productive human being: "fins" and "scales." Read More