“Boker tov, talmidim,” she begins each lesson in Hebrew. The students stand up and answer, “Boker tov, hamorah.” Then they sit back down and...

"‘Bubby!” I scream as huge flames erupt from the frying pan on the stove where something has gone horribly wrong. I watch in horror as...

It is not for a person like me to even attempt to sum up the life and teachings of any gadol, especially a gadol...

Although the name Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson sounds like it belongs to a character in a Dr. Seuss book, it’s actually the name...

This past Sunday was a day like few others in memory, as numerous disasters and catastrophes struck the Jewish community in the tri-state area...

Last week’s “Closer Look” discussed the “fallout” from a nuclear explosion at a remote Russian military base. It took the Russians some time to...

A planned trip to Israel by two anti-Israel US congresswomen created political pandemonium after Israel said that they would not be allowed in. Both Rep....

The first thing that hit me when I landed on Planet Supermom was its perfect houses. They all looked exactly the same—two-story Colonials with...

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri never imagined that he would end up in the eye of an international political storm. On one side, he had...

One of the people I have gotten to know and admire in the course of my work as an editor is Leah Zagelbaum. Leah...

You know those annoying people who always have loads of advice for you? The ones who tell you that you’re raising your kids all...

Y ou don’t have to be chareidi or even frum in order to understand that something very unjust has been taking place in the...

While it seems like yesterday, it was in fact more than 20 years ago. I’d bumped into an old classmate of mine in Toronto, Mordy...

Apparently, some members of the media have mistaken me for the closed-case file archivist of the intelligence community. I certainly had unusual security access...

In 1945, my father, Reb Eliezer Duvid Lebowitz, was five years old and living in a Displaced Persons camp in Leipheim, Germany. The hut...

On the night of Thursday, July 25, just hours after Shmuel Rabinowitz, a 16-year-old camper was found in the woods of Vermont, we heard...

It doesn’t take long to get hooked on the music of Ishay Ribo, and you don’t have to be Orthodox—or even Jewish, for that...

I try to go to Boro Park only for celebrations. But tonight is an exception; I’m on the way to Boro Park because of...

“In the beginning, when the tragedy first happened, people would look at me with pity and try to avoid making eye contact. But now?...

n his first week in office, Boris Johnson had everything go his own way. From totally reshaping the Cabinet to easily overcoming Jeremy Corbyn...