Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

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Rabbi Joel Padowitz and Rabbi Jonathan Sassen Mosaica Press After spotting an orange moon just over the horizon on a cold New Hampshire Sukkos night, my daughter asked me about its shocking color.

Hedy Bohm, a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor from Toronto, “wasn’t surprised” when news broke earlier this month that Library ...

Thirty injured were evacuated to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. A pregnant woman was transferred for observation and the rest of the patients are defined as lightly injured and suffering from anxiety.

Simply put, Mixbook remains the best service of the five we tested for making photo books. While some competitors excelled at one thing or another, Mixbook does just about everything right. Its ...

See Rambam, Ramban, and many other Rishonim who discuss this concept.) Perhaps being alive is having free will and agency? The only problem with these definitions is that none of them would hold ...

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

Rabbi Heschel Greenberg has launched a new series of classes on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah in response to the Rebbe’s call to learn at least one halacha in depth. The Rebbe initiated a major effort to ...

The city's Rambam hospital said three men wounded during the barrage were admitted for medical treatment. An Israeli army statement said that nearly 200 rockets in total were launched from Lebanon ...

Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, and it remains one of the most introspective, enlightening accounts of what it was like to be a Jewish child living in ...

Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...