Yes, it matters.

By Mark Eshman
Published on May 20, 2013

Dating 101: “Why Are You Single?”

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 7, 2013

To Date or Not To Date?

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 29, 2013

Mother, Son, Dating & a Dancing Queen at the Bus

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 23, 2013

The Rules of Girlfriend Friendship

By Ilana Angel
Published on March 20, 2013

Dating and Divorce

By Ilana Angel
Published on June 18, 2012

An Englishman and a Canadian Walk Into a Bar

By Ilana Angel
Published on May 1, 2012

Mel Gibson Needs a Jewish Mother

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 12, 2012

A Nightmare 16 Years In The Making

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 9, 2012

What Do You See?

By Ilana Angel
Published on April 7, 2012

Did Online Dating Just Get Safer?

By Ilana Angel
Published on March 21, 2012

What You Need to Ask Yourself Before Snooping

By Tamara Shayne Kagel
Published on March 15, 2012

Sex, Drugs & Driving:  Surviving the Teenage Years

By Ilana Angel
Published on August 17, 2011

Trust

By Misha Henckel
Published on December 10, 2010

It’s not about settlements, stupid, it’s about trust

Published on March 16, 2010

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Interior Minister Eli Yishai did more to harm U.S.-Israel relations than all of Israel’s detractors around the world ever could when they decided it is more important to build 1,600 houses in East Jerusalem than to have good relations with one house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Madoff’s Redemption

By David Suissa
Published on December 24, 2008

It's like a quadruple shot of cheap vodka that you drink quickly on an empty stomach. You feel disgusted and drunk at the same time.

Keeping the peace

By Yehuda Lev
Published on December 20, 2007

In the 30 years that the author and his wife have been together, he has yet to be the target of a wielded tire iron, but says marriage to a political activist does require a certain flexibility of thought and dexterity of movement.

Trust but verify

By Steve Greenberg
Published on July 5, 2007

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Chametz and matzah symbolize internal slavery struggle

By Reb Mimi Feigelson
Published on March 29, 2007

When my student Adam confronted me recently with this question "In a post-Freudian world, how can we trust the honesty of our intentions?" my response was, "Our conscious and subconscious can be likened to matzah and chametz."

yeLAdim

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on May 25, 2006

Many Factors Enter Into Temple Choice

By Gaby Friedman
Published on September 15, 2005

When Mark Firestone was searching for a shul to join, he didn't look for a shul that had a nursery school or Hebrew school attached. Nor did he fret about the services he'd be getting for his membership fee. Instead, he wanted a shul that was quiet.

"I wanted it to be very quiet, so you can hear yourself daven, and hopefully Hashem can hear it," said Firestone, a Pico-Robertson life insurance salesman who belongs to Aish HaTorah. "I have been to other shuls where you can barely hear the Torah reading, because people are talking so much. Aish has zero tolerance for people talking in shul."

For many Jews, the High Holidays is a time when they consider joining or renewing their synagogue memberships. However, what attracts them to synagogues, and what rabbis feel is important when choosing a synagogue, is not always the vast array of services that synagogues and temples provide.

Many members and rabbis feel that it is the intangibles -- the atmosphere in the shul or the feeling of community that really attracts people, not the Hebrew school, youth program or adult education that is offered.

Child’s Play

By Teresa Strasser
Published on August 4, 2005

Is our culture trying to scam us into having kids?

This is an epic question and I only have 850 words, so let me start close to home, with my grandma.

"Listen to me," she said last week over the phone from Reseda. "You have to have kids. You'll never regret it. It's the best thing you'll ever do. Listen to your grandma."

Catch any celebrity parent on a talk show and you're likely to hear the same sentiment about the singularly life-changing effects of parenthood. When Jude Law, Eminem, Denise Richards and Esther Strasser agree on something, you have to give it consideration.

Trust Your Partner

By Rabbi Moshe D. Bryski
Published on May 19, 2005

Whether it's keeping the Shabbat holy, sending our children to Torah schools or going the extra mile to keep a kosher kitchen, shmittah reminds us that Mount Sinai represented a bridge between theory and practice; faith and action; trust and resolve. Upon that mountain, the Almighty took us in as His partner in the business of creation. He's been imploring us ever since: "Don't be a shvacher shutaf."

The Social Security Fix: Pay Back Funds

By Rep. Henry Waxman
Published on April 14, 2005

President Bush has proposed the biggest transfer of wealth in history. He plans to use trillions of dollars in contributions to the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and other administration spending priorities.

The Safe Unsafe

By Adam Gilad
Published on May 20, 2004

You date. You go to dinners. The beach. A friend's showcase. You retell your charming story until you hate every polished detail.

Cunin Helps Save Shul Down Under

By Gaby Wenig
Published on October 23, 2003

A Californian white knight has stepped in to solve a dispute between two warring Australian brothers-in-law.

For the Kids

By Abby Gilad
Published on January 30, 2003

Does your mother ever tell you to do something like clean up your room or put your socks in the laundry?

A Wealth of Embezzlers

By Mike Levy
Published on January 31, 2002

The case exposes a danger for nonprofit organizations like synagogues, which may rely on volunteer lay leadership for much of their financial management and oversight.

Don’t Trust Me

By J.D. Smith
Published on March 22, 2001

If the Nixon administration taught us nothing else, I think the lesson learned was this: Destroy the evidence.