It is our family tradition on Pesach to spread butter on matzos for breakfast. But this past year, the supermarket shelves were empty of...

Genie Milgrom knew something was terribly wrong. Even as a little girl, she had always struggled with her family’s Catholic faith and identity, she...

In 1994, I started gathering stories about Shlomo Carlebach for my first book, Holy Brother. One of the themes that continuously crept up was...

“Don’t call my wife yet,” Yossi told his boss at the meat processing plant where he was employed. Meat was Yossi’s specialty, having worked in...

Keeping kosher was not a priority in my childhood home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. My parents’ priorities included raising us to pursue a university...

Gitty called me at 11:00 p.m., an hour before she had to head to the airport to catch her flight. “Chanchy, I’ve changed my...

It started with a random text message from my editor early one afternoon. “Want to go to Kentucky tomorrow?” I chuckled at the way the...

For most kosher consumers, the extent of their contact with the kashrus industry is when they check packages of food at the grocery store...

Sixty-five-year-old Betty Huart was dying of liver cancer. If she was lucky, in a few months she would turn 66—the age her father had...

Last week the prime ministers of Lebanon and Iraq were forced to resign in the face of widespread popular protests. The people said they...

Today in Israel, words like “exclusion of women” ring very loudly, even when it comes to a musical performance held to help the sick....

On my way to the supermarket, I was accosted by a friend who practically seethed with righteous indignation. “I was going out of my mind...

Recently, Turx was invited to join a group of American journalists in covering Iraq's first nationwide elections since the eradication of ISIS from its...

My neighbor Fraidy knocked on my door about an hour before she was about to leave to Israel for Sukkos. She looked like she...

One of the downsides of being in the public eye is that far more attention is paid to one’s gaffes and controversies than to...

During the three days I spent in Afghanistan in early September, I had the opportunity to spend quality time with the troubled country’s last...

“I hate to break it to you, but your husband’s an alcoholic.” The patient had been rushed to the local hospital in a state...

On the surface, this is a story about two intertwined criminal cases, one involving a Russian national and the other an Israeli-American. But the...

Lawn ’N Order:  A Run-of-the-Mill Rumor Mill The date was 7/12/2017. A day, which as it would turn out, would not go on to live...

What happens when you put children and elderly people together under one roof? The tale is told of an old man—irascible, unlovable—who died alone in...