I was alone in the hospital room, several hours after giving birth to my third child. The birth had been incredibly difficult, and I...

Together with klal Yisrael we mourn the petirah of the Skulener Rebbe, Rav Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, zt”l, the great tzaddik and kadosh who was...

It was my first trip to Brooklyn. Wearing a plaid party dress that my grandmother had sewn by hand, I sat up straight with...

Approximately one year ago, on an unusually hot Israeli summer day, a car entered a path leading into a settlement in the Beit Shemesh...

Leah, a 55-year-old woman, still remembers a dream she had as a child in vivid detail. “When I was ten years old, I dreamed that...

On Monday, a Gazan missile was shot into Israel, hitting a house in the town of Mishmeret and injuring seven people, including two children...

Moishy, my next to youngest child, was on a flight from Israel, with a four-hour stopover in Istanbul. He’d just completed the zman and...

The young FBI agent was obviously distressed as he sat in my law office. Even his FBI-style-approved suit was wrinkled. “I love the FBI....

Everybody loves a good piece of fried chicken, right? But standing over a hot frying pan to get exactly the results you want can...

Sitting in the armchair next to mine, my husband ran his fingers under the words in his open gemara. How can he concentrate on...

She’s not exactly the person to go to for business advice, despite having built up a multimillion dollar business, simply because Rivka Rose’s road...

Tzatziki Sauce: 1½ cups Warfare Dairy-Free Sour Cream 1 clove garlic Juice and zest of 1 lemon ½ cup mint leaves, chopped Salt, to taste Shaved cucumber Lamb Skewers: 1 pound ground...

An American poet once said: “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”...

When a shidduch is meant to be, it will happen—even if the shadchan tries to stop it in its tracks. Shlomo Hamelech, the wisest of...

My family’s home in Modi’in contains a library of very old sefarim, its shelves filled with worn and delicate manuscripts. There are ancient sefarim...

Thirteen-year-old Miri Feldbaum* was at the doctor’s office for her annual visit, doing as she was directed: Hold your breath. Open your mouth wide....

⅔ cup hot water 1 lemon ginger tea bag ⅓ cup unfiltered apple juice, at room temperature ⅓ cup unsweetened cranberry juice (if using sweetened, omit honey),...

As winter rains flow from Tel Dan and the Banias to fill Lake Kinneret, this abundant water has special meaning for Teverya’s burgeoning Torah...

Having grown up in Toronto, I am quite familiar with its frum community. All of us Torontonians know each other, and there’s a nice...

Liberation Square, Baghdad, January 27, 1969 “You cannot kill us! You murderers! I have three children, and my wife is pregnant!” Soon, though, the tranquilizers the...