The intense scrubbing and cleaning of homes to prepare for Passover was a little different in the shtetl. Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916-2009), who was born and raised in Opatow (Apt), described in ...

Spring is a season symbolic of a fresh start, hope, and transformation both in nature and in our day-to-day lives. As we embrace the new season each year, many continue the age-old tradition of spring ...

Spring cleaning may seem like nothing more than a tedious post-winter to-do list item, but in reality, it goes back much further than that. National Geographic discusses how, across the world, ...

In many households there is a tradition of spring cleaning or deep cleaning the inside of the house. With the help of the Google machine, I discovered the practice of spring cleaning has practical, ...