Opinion

No question about it, a hint of summer is in the air. The raw, chilly days of March and April have given way to pleasant warmth, and at this point who isn’t thinking about having fun in the sun? Of course, there always are the tried and true summer activities to turn to like baseball and swimming. Then again, you may want to try something off the beaten path. If so, how about treasure hunting?

New Yorkers, get ready: The plastic bags we’ve been using for decades will soon become a relic of the past.

There’s no meat anywhere that can compare to the meat that comes from Aleph Farms. That’s because the meat we buy in supermarkets and restaurants comes from animals, while theirs is made in a lab.

One of the best things about the Jewish people is that we keep innovating new ways – especially around the yomim tovim – to make our lives easier, and also to maybe make a few dollars, because Yom Tov is expensive.  And it’s even more expensive, because of all of these innovations that we have to get.

According to the old expression, when it rains it pours; but don’t remind the farmers in the Midwest about that. The last thing they want to hear about now is more rain.

Historic flooding in the Farm Belt in March has taken several human lives and killed a huge amount of livestock. So many farms are flooded that it’s still impossible to estimate the damage in dollar terms, although there is no question it will reach into the billions.

We all know the saying, “There’s no such thing as a dumb question,” although yeridas hadoros since the saying was formulated has made us question whether it is in fact true.  But there is definitely a dumb time to ask certain questions.