The singer and songwriter Lionel Richie talks about selfimprovement avoiding the paparazzi and touring Texas with the Commodores....

Passover is four weeks away, so tonight my mother and I started putting together our menu. I'll be making gefilte fish, as I always do, plus my vegetarian matzoh balls and a Middle Eastern-inflected salad of butter lettuce with grapefruit and avocado. We'll have classic Ashkenazi charoset, of course...

I’m in the USA for the first time - just had my first american breakfast (burp) which also included sightings of Linda Gray and Larry Hagman - you know that you’re in Texas when… Before yesterday, I hadn’t been on a plane for more than 4 hours and never been on anything bigge...

Rabbis of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement created a virtual nightclub on wheels to bring the celebration of the holiday Purim to students at five New England colleges....

Now that Purim has passed (unless you live in Yerushalaim or another walled city and celebrate Shushan Purim ) , the countdown begins. There is a full lunar month between Purim (the 14th of Adar) and Pesach (the 14th of Nissan). Which really isn’t very much time at all, especially when youR...

Apologies for the delay in posting; this was due to circumstances far beyond my control. Whew. Okay. A moment before the Purim holiday ends, let’s take a look at days gone by, in particular the Adloyada parade. “Adloyada” is a bastardization of the phrase “ad lo yada” o...

STEPH DEROSA: FAIRE GAME >>> Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick r...

With over 10 years of experience leading small groups, there are a few things I can tell you about your "randomly assigned" small faith group without even showing up. First, there is one person who talks way too much. Second, there is one person who does not talk at all. And finally, there...

The holiday of Purim for me was once synonymous with debauchery, chaos and wilding. Obviously as I matured in the thirtysomething adult that I am today getting rip roaring drunk until I was unable to distinguish between good and evil became a less of a priority. I was thinking last night about my pr...

09March2009 Today is public holiday. Thanks to Allah, we have holiday as today is HIS birthday; yet, a rainy and comfortable day. Three days holiday (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) for some of my friend just like Benedictine for them. They can go back to their own hometown for their parent, or some go...