If you’re vacationing in New York, here are Judy’s favourite Jewish sites to see.

Without a doubt, there are more people and organizations who need your Tzedakah dollars – and even your Tzedakah time – than all your available resources. You want to do good, but how do you choose?

The effect is the same – those in need are given help - but one is an obligation, while the other is a choice.

All seders follow the same order and include the same elements.

In our family, we grew up with an unspoken rule that there was no eating during the Seder, except for what was required as part of the seder. Except for babies in highchairs. It was a revelation to me when someone suggested putting out snacks on the table, initially to make the wait easier on our children.

“Haggadah” is a Hebrew word that means “telling” in the sense of “recounting”. As such, it’s also the name of the book that is used during a Passover Seder to guide participants in the retelling of the exodus from Egypt and the rituals associated with this retelling.

Preparation for a Seder can seem overwhelming, but it doesn’t need to be!

Considering the percentage of the student population that is Jewish might give you a better feel for the likelihood of actually finding other Jewish students.

If you or someone you know are making decisions about post-secondary education next year, you may be wondering where the Jewish students are.

“Mezuzah” means doorpost, but it has come to mean the object that Jews hang outside their doors, on the doorpost. It’s composed of two parts, the scroll, sometimes called a klaf (קְלָף ) which has the words of the mezuzah, and a case for the scroll.

The short and obvious answer to this question is, “Money”. But there are some more interesting questions hidden behind this simple one.

If you do an Internet search for “mezuzah folk tales”, you’ll find plenty of stories of terrible things happening to people whose mezuzot are somehow not kosher….