The good news this year, said the Kansas City-born rabbi who opened the original Mitzvah Store on Pico Boulevard in 1991, is that he has recovered by selling the leftover Passover merchandise this ...

Rabbi Rami Pavolotzky says that “mitzvah” is the Jewish commandment to give help: A blessing to those who give and to those who receive. “Every day, as Jews, we are called to help, to be ...