One of the cutest Jewish traditions is that during the Passover seder, the youngest child recites four reasons why "this night is different from all other nights," commonly known as the Four Questions. The purpose of this tradition is to prompt learning. It is derived from a sentence of the...

Judaism has a multitude of remembrance days commemorating tragedies in our history. Most are centuries if not millennia old, but there are a few dates on the Jewish calendar that commemorate recent events. Kristallnacht, observed every Nov. 9, is one of these.

Kristallnacht, called the "Night of Broken Glass" because...

In 2001, high school started on September 5th. Our fifth day of school was a Tuesday; it started just like normal: I met my friends and traveled to school on the subway, just like we had done most of the previous year. During my free second period I went to...

In honor of Labor Day, often accepted as the end of summer, it seems appropriate to reflect on a summer phenomenon of the Jewish Upper West Side in Manhattan.

The gathering of troves of young Jews at the Great Lawn of Central Park in Manhattan on Saturday afternoons is in...

A couple weeks ago I was invited to a hosted Shabbat dinner of 35 20-somethings, of which I, like most who were there, only knew a handful of other people. Despite it being a Shabbat dinner, there were only a few isolated pockets of religious activities during the four-hour evening....