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...
The Senator from Texas: A conversation with Republican Senator Ted Cruz
One of the best friends of the Jewish community in the United States Senate is undoubtedly Ted Cruz, the Republican from Texas. As my...
In the Eye of the Firestorm: What it was like in...
Going into Pesach, tensions were running high as fear of the unknown overwhelmed the Minneapolis Jewish community. The COVID-19 pandemic was advancing with record...
For the First Time, an Eruv in Stamford Hill: A grassroots...
There is almost nothing quite as controversial in Jewish communities as an eruv, but the coronavirus outbreak may have been more powerful than that....
Trapped on a Leaky Boat Far From Home: A modern-day story...
We were adrift on the vast Caribbean Sea near the Dominican Republic when the virus hit the region. We sailed from one port to...
