How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household

I know firsthand that you cannot force a six-year-old to nap if he/she is bursting with energy, and I know that the parents in B’nai Brak love their children dearly, consider children their greatest blessing, and their greatest wealth. They would never force a child to sleep.

There should be an aura of dignity, a component of holiness in the act of appeasing appetite and satisfying hunger.

believe that the purpose of kashrut is to make eating a special experience and to serve as a reminder of a Jew’s ethical conscience as well as of the other unique teachings of Judaism. To me, distinctiveness and not separation is the Jew’s calling.

the modern philosophy that everything-one-wants-one-may-have,

One is the strong commitment to community.

Modern Orthodoxy includes many things. But in 1982, it also includes gi-clad mezuzah kissers.

Refrigerators, where everything is cold, can be used to store both meat and dairy as long as the foods are sealed and are kept separate; one would not stack, say, a salami on top of a container of butter.

the same word is used for dedicating a house as was used for dedicating the Holy Temple after the Maccabean victory.

Dayenu, the ancient seder hymn Jews have sung for centuries on Pesach, proclaiming that this act of God’s goodness or that one would have been sufficient.

To a great extent, a Jewish way of life is a portable faith: you can take it with you anywhere you go. This