Each year on Yom Kippur, when Jews fast for 25 hours, we abstain not only from food and water, but also from the wearing of leather footwear. One of the most beautiful interpretations for this ...

Food cooked more than three hours before being eaten, which is tasteless, stale, putrid, decomposed and unclean, is food liked by people in the mode of ignorance.” For Jews, fasting should be combined ...

Following the Mediterranean diet reduces your risk of gum disease, which reduces your risk for inflammation that leads to chronic disease and dementia, a new study found.

• Table salt grains are finer, so a teaspoon equals much more salt by volume. • Kosher salt’s large crystals give greater ...

One of the best films ever made, with a near perfect critic score is a must-watch for anyone film or history fan ...

I can feel the zit on my chin and know I shouldn’t squeeze it, but I do it anyway. It immediately starts throbbing and grows ...

For those with plant-based preferences, Mrs. Goldfarb’s “Unreal” sandwich features vegetarian corned beef/pastrami that attempts to capture the magic of the original without the meat – a noble effort ...

The matzo ball soup at Canter’s has cured more colds, broken hearts, and hangovers than any medicine known to science. It’s Jewish penicillin in its highest form, the kind of soup that makes you feel ...

Blind and disabled Jews can request books, High Holidays materials and even calendars from JBI Library at no cost.

Michael Schill had made a deal with protesters, and the Trump administration froze $790M in grants to the school. After more than a year of strife over his handling of campus antisemitism, the Jewish ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago will soon see a new Jewish high school. It's being built right in the heart of downtown Chicago. A professional-grade, over 500 capacity theater is just one of many ...