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  Now that yom tov is over, I think it’s time to get back to my diet. Not that I’ve been dieting at all before yom tov. But it’s been...

  In the days and weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah, we endured many blisteringly hot and humid days. The heat was bad but the humidity was worse. Since many...

  From time to time, I run a yom tov article that is really not written for you — it’s just a way of recording my family’s apparent minhagim. Minhagim...

  Welcome back to “How Should I Know?” — the Rosh Hashanah advice column that experts agree should be tossed into a lake. Even on yom tov. Dear Mordechai, How do I prepare...

  No one second-guesses the chazzan like the chazzan himself. I don’t daven for the amud often, but when I do, there are a lot of thoughts going through my head....

The expression “No good deed goes unpunished” recently became relatable to me. I always thought it was a cute saying until I got a taste of it last week. It...

By Mordechai Schmutter Welcome back to “How Should I Know?”—the column more and more readers are turning to every day by accident. Dear Mordechai, Is it just me, or is Rosh Hashanah...

For a while last week, I felt as if I were back in first grade, where I learned about vowels. The golden rule was that the vowels were A,...

  As someone who, when there’s not much going on in his own life, baruch Hashem, keeps an eye on the news for cute stories he can write about, I...

Every year, I print a camp newsletter one week instead of my usual column, and I feel like I’ve been neglecting a very special kind of camp — Mommy...