SHAVUOT FEATURE NEW YORK -- Observing my kids playing, I notice how the same toy, no matter how many times they play with it, can reveal the most remarkable things. My daughter, with the vocabulary befitting a 1 1/2-year-old, will bring her ball over...
By Sybil Kaplan, JTA
• Published September 21, 2011
JERUSALEM - Among the familiar customs of Rosh Hashanah is the dipping of apple pieces in honey - but what is its origin? King David had a "cake made in a pan and a sweet cake" (II Samuel 6: 15, 19) given to everyone. Hosea 3:1 identifies the "sweet cake"...
Though it would be ideal if all Jews could be once again residing in Eretz Yisra'el, that is not the case. Jews live on every inhabitable continent in the world. Jews have acculturated to life in galut (Diaspora) and the destruction of Temple, the...
