Jordan Richard-Craven, Justin Field and Lauren Wallenstei meet at the National-and-Barrington bus-stop. Photo by Ryan Torok On Sunday afternoon, Lauren Wallenstein was walking past a bus stop at ...

As Jews, we celebrate adulthood at age 12 or 13. And while that may have once felt like adulthood, in the modern world, tweens are not considered grown-ups. Instead, b’nai mitzvah mark the beginning ...

We are used to seeing “I found tefillin” notices regarding a pair of tefillin that were left yesterday morning on a bus. But what about a tallit bag that was lost fifty years ago and was just found?

When Simon Emil Freudenheim becomes a bar mitzvah this Saturday, he will be wearing the most astonishing tallit I’ve ever encountered. It is made of a letter handwritten in an amalgam of Yiddish and ...