“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the mockers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Life gets in the way. That’s one of the lessons of Christmas. “Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht.” That’s Yiddish for “Man plans, God laughs.” Some people may read this and think, “God just ...

When Sherre Hirsch, a Los Angeles rabbi, had adolescent woes about boyfriends or school, her grandmother used to repeat an old Yiddish saying: “We plan, God laughs.” Hirsch, now 39 and the mother of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Last week, I wrote about ending up at a Waffle House late one Christmas evening. I didn’t plan it that way. Circumstances led to me taking care of my father for the holidays. The ...

Before evacuating her apartment in the Pacific Palisades, Moussia Zwiebel grabbed her toothbrush, a change of clothes, her cash, jewelry, one of her two laptops and her passport. “I literally did not ...

Making God Laugh follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years' worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill's grown children -- a priest, an aspiring actress, and a ...