In Godfather II, Michael Corleone says of a fellow mobster – “Hyman Roth has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years.” The same thing could be said about Yiddish, the language that refuses to die, even though it has been...

The Nerivio therapeutic wearable for treating migraine pain won the “Best New Technology Solution for Pain Management” award in the fifth annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program that attracted more than 3,850 nominations from 17 countries. Nerivio...

When New York was caught in the midst of a brutal wave of COVID-19 last spring, the daily death toll reaching as high as 800, the stress for many Orthodox Jewish schoolchildren was overwhelming. They were catching the coronavirus in high numbers. And...

May 27, 1911 — Longtime Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek Is Born Teddy Kollek, Jerusalem’s mayor from 1965 to 1993, is born in a Budapest suburb. His parents name him after Theodor Herzl. After growing up in Vienna, he moves to Palestine with his family...

“The Messier Side of Parenting” introduces readers to Taryn Goldstein, 43, a St. Louis Jewish mother of four sons, ranging in age from 9 to 15. In her video blog, Goldstein will offer her no-holds-barred take on parenting, with topics ranging from...

School is over, or almost over. Camp hasn’t begun. And already you and the kids are close to getting on each other’s last nerve. What’s a parent to do? The good news is that there’s a lot more to do these days compared to a year ago, when most...

(JTA) — What would it be like to go to sleep one day and suddenly wake up in a world turned upside down by COVID-19? Eli Seliger, an Orthodox Jewish father of seven from London, has a pretty good idea. In March 2020, long before anyone knew the...

Memorial Day Weekend Photo by Juan Salamanca from Pexels Swim time at the J Friday, May 29 File photo of Bais Abraham Congregation in University City.  FABA (Families at Bais Abe) event Memorial...