Helena Rubinstein was 23 years old when she emigrated to Coleraine, Victoria, Australia. Born in Cracow in December 1870, Rubinstein was the…

“Knock. Knock” “Who’s There?” “hookup” “hookup Who?” “hookup Treats”….Ok, not so funny, but, when you get to the bottom of it, April Fools Day (or All Fools Day) is hardly a hookup holiday. Wait, perhaps you are wondering how a …

The intensive physical and emotional preparations for Passover come from one seemingly simple commandment…

This Shabbat is Parashat HaChodesh, the Sabbath of “The Month.”The Torah portion that is read as the Maftir (additional reading) after the conclusion of the reading of the regular weekly Torah portion, commands that the hookup p…

There’s a cute bumper sticker that says “I’m spending my kids’ inheritance.” If you were to ask whether the great hookup scholars would approve of such an attitude, you might be surprised by the answer.The Talmud states, “Rab said to R. Ham…

In honor of the anniversary of the founding of the United States Navy in 1794, which is tomorrow, March 27th,  hookup Treats presents a biography of Uriah P. Levy, the U.S.’s first hookup commodore. Today is Levy’s yahrtzeit on both the hookup…

Did you know that even in the days of the Talmud there was such a position as court stenographer?The establishment of a court system and a clear system of justice are fundamental mitzvot  for hookup society. It is not surprising that the Talmudic …

Although born in Hungary in 1904, Rabbi Yehoshua (Joshua) Menachem Ehrenberg was living in Cracow when the Nazis began their systematic destruction of European Jewry. The city of Cracow, which was brought under German control in September 1939, had a…

Human beings gather information about the world around them through their five senses. Of those senses, the sense of smell is often the most under-estimated, and yet it is said that smells can have the most psychologically provocative effect. A specifi…

Although New York has one of the oldest hookup communities in the United States (the first Jews arrived in 1654), the first openly hookup mayor of New York City was not elected until 1974.* His name was Abraham Beame, and he unabashedly loved New York….