Night Drive // All We Wanted Was A Little Fun
It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday night. The guys were chilling, planning to pick up some cholent and kishke, the perfect outlet after...
An Israeli in North Korea // Secret Photos On An Unusual...
While the eyes of the world were focused on the threat of war emanating from the Far East, veteran Israeli press photographer, Moshe Shai,...
The Magdala Stone
The Jews of Rome and the authorities of the Vatican seem to have decided that if so many people believe that the Vatican has...
Destination Sahara // The search for Jewish history in the Moroccan...
I remember as a young boy accompanying a relative of mine to a small house in Netivot where the Baba Sali, the great and...
The Rediscoverer of Yemen // World Jewry wwas stunned by the...
To the Ashkenazi Jews of the cold and impoverished shtetlach, Yiddishkeit as they knew it was centered in Europe. Little thought was given to...
The Legacy Of Chevron // A visit from the Rosh Yeshivah,...
The institution of yeshivos is hardly new. The Talmud relates: “Rav Chama ben Chanina said: ‘From the days of our ancestors, the Jewish people...
When West Met East
American Jewish soldiers whose units were assigned to fight in North Africa during World War II undoubtedly expected to be spending a Yom Tov...
Identity Check
A kashrus mashgiach working in China recently had an unexpected, dramatic experience when he was stopped at a roadblock in Xinjiang Province and taken...
The Exodus // Revitalization by the River
Motti Hershkop told me that he never thought part of helping a town grow as a destination for Jewish families would mean flipping pizzas....
Trust, But Verify
I never thought of myself as a kiruv type of guy. To me, kiruv was reserved for rabbis, not a 21-year-old guy like me...
