It’s Chanukah time and many of us are getting out our favorite potato latke recipes. As a nutritionist, I am acutely aware of the confusion among many of my clients, patients, and friends over the role of potatoes in a healthy diet. I hear comments about how potatoes are so fattening, how they are so high in starch, how they contain as much sugar as a Tasty Cake. In short, many people see potatoes as a nutritional no-no. In fact, potatoes can most definitely be part of a healthful diet, provided a few simple caveats are kept in mind, as

I had planned to begin by enumerating the things I miss most about my mother, but I changed my mind when I realized how impractical it would be to list all 2,000. Suffice it to say that the pain of missing her on the first yahrtzeit is just as acute as it was 12 months ago.

My mother often said, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” Judging by the hundreds of letters we received during shiva, and for many months after that, lots of people must have cared about how much she knew

When Hashem created the world, He created many trees, many fruits, many blades of grass, and many animals, but He created only one man and one woman. Why? To teach us that “Bishvili nivrah ha’olam – the world is created for me”: A person is entitled to believe that even if he were the only person in the world, Hashem would have still created the whole world for him. That makes each of us very special, and means that we can learn from every individual, from the ordinary to the most extraordinary. Some people go the extra chesed mile of