A Bride’s Burden: A widow reflects on her life
I just celebrated my 80th birthday, surrounded by my children, grandchildren, and quite a few great-grandchildren.
By nature, I’m not a very sentimental person. I...
Vitamin D Deficiencies Might Be Dangerous
Researchers, led by a team from Northwestern University, have found that there is a strong correlation between severe Vitamin D deficiency and death from...
Jewish Life in a Gulf State: A conversation with Mr. Solly...
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a picture of the world’s tallest hotel in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was...
“Law and Order” and the Jews: How it started a shift...
"I am your president of law and order,” Donald Trump declared in his June 1 address to the nation. The president and his speechwriters...
From Boro Park to the Treasury: A conversation with Moshe (Mitchell)...
Full disclosure: Moshe (Mitchell) Silk and I are personal friends. We have known each other for a number of years and daven in the...
Tasty Tomato Soup: Fulfilling an old promise
Nathalie is a friend and nutritionist who specializes in weight lost. I teamed up with her to write this feature. She has great tips...
First Day Blues: the eighteen months begin
As if someone wanted to summarize and condense Netanyahu’s career into one day and create a portrait that tells the entire story, last Sunday...
The Churchill Deportees: Forgotten Round-Up in Wartime England
Winston Churchill is rightly remembered as the courageous wartime leader who led and inspired England to resist the Nazi onslaught at a time when...
The Reunion: A favor is repaid manyfold
I was sitting on my couch, casually flipping through Ami Magazine. In the business column “Lunchbreak,” I read an interview about a Jewish billionaire...
Time Warp: After the “c” is over
I am prefacing my words by saying “bli neder,” which, I am told, in my Litivisher tradition is almost as bad as promising to...
