Old Growth Yiddishkeit

"Rabbi Meir used to say: He that studies Torah with a single teacher, to whom may he be likened? To one who had a single field, part of...

"R' Achai ben Yoshiya says: One who purchases grain from the market [to make his own flour], to what can he be compared? To a baby ...

There is a parodox in the Jewish tradition that has bothered me for quite some time. Bread is considered the perennial "staff of life...

I have noticed a recurring meme on the internet recently of people searching for kosher kimchi (or sometimes kosher kimchee or kosher kim ch...

"On the second night [of Rosh Hashana] the new fruit should be eaten [immediately after Kiddush and] before the washing of hands for th...

*A version of this article also appears in the High Holidays issue of SoulWise Magazine. On Rosh Hashanah we eat many symbolic foods. The mo...

Eshes chayil mi yimtza? A frum family in Oak Park, MI is being persecuted by their city government for planting a vegetable garden in their ...