Want to make your Friday Shabbat meal even more special? Then it’s time to bake some challah napkin rings. Speaker and author Sarah Pachter (“Is it Ever Enough?” and “Small Choices, Big Changes”), who ...

Fame was once nearly impossible to achieve, but now anyone can gain celebrity status, and that “reachable” aspect has made it incredibly desirable. According to studies, children are three times more ...

Are we ever enough? Do we ever have enough? Do we ever do enough? The answer lies in our perspective. Sarah Pachter doles out great perspective in short, easily read chapters on how to feel not ...

Erika Nissanoff wasn’t yet born when World War II broke out. Her father’s parents, Ferenc and Aranka, were well-to-do Hungarians. They owned a mill where the entire community brought their ...

Imagine your husband spontaneously brings home roses. That is sweet and all, except they are roses, and… well… roses aren’t your favorite flower. The best ...

When we get stuck in any one tense, we start to get tense. This thought struck me as I saw a recent billboard proclaiming, “The past and the future are just a story we tell ourselves.” Getting stuck ...

A universal symbol for summertime is popsicles. But as I watched my kids eating them this past Shabbos (and cleaned up the sticky aftermath), I couldn’t help but recognize that popsicles melt pretty ...

I recently interviewed Yona Elishis and Sarah Nissel, heads of JDAC, a chesed organization that helps couples that are divorcing to mediate, free of cost. What they have created is visionary. They ...

On Lag Ba’Omer, fire takes center stage. On Shabbat, we light candles, and on Chanukah, we light the menorah for eight nights straight. Even in the times of the Beit HaMikdash, the kohen lit the ...

On Simchat Torah, a very generous sponsor gives each child a pekele – a bag filled with candy. The pekalach are large and packed with a variety of treats. Everyone receives exactly the same one, which ...