A story: Shmuel Yankel Isserles was prepared to emigrate to America.   His nephew, Mordy, was much more worldly, and coached Shmuel Yan...

I was born late in 1970; I missed the heyday of the folk music movement in this country.  But the genre has always been one of my favorites,...

I'm not the biggest of sports fans.  I don't mind watching sports, but I don't rabidly follow any team, and  I don't make a ...

Greetings, all.  It has been quite a while since I last posted.  I'm going to try to get more consistent with my posting. I have, in t...

Remember "Members Only" jackets?  In the 1980s, they were all the rage, perhaps because of the aura of exclusivity connoted by t...

Ever since people got the idea of moving beyond the classic Maxwell House Haggadah  to jazz up their sedarim  in some manner, the question...