Her Legacy Lives On // Almost a year after the tragic...

It was a beautiful Friday afternoon, balmy and warm, just seven short days before Pesach. At the Levin home, Yisroel was about to head...

Meatball Sliders

Meatballs are one of those dishes that both kids and adults find fun to eat. These meatballs are great on their own, on a...

The Headshot Guru // Laibel Schwartz works as a headshot photographer...

Q: Why did you get into the business of headshots? A: Headshots have become a way to humanize business. Doing business used to mean walking...

Agudas Yisrael Galvanizes the Smaller Kehillos // A conversation with Rabbi...

Q: I understand that there is a new initiative in Agudas Yisrael to give more power to the smaller kehillos. Could you please explain...

From Frazzled to Neat Freak in just 8 weeks. Can Fraidy...

I’ll never forget the day of The Great Robbery. The victims of the robbery, though, have no recollection of the event. That’s because they’re...

Two weeks that Changed my Life // An encounter at a...

It was a winter Motzaei Shabbos, but the weather was relatively balmy, as it usually is in North Miami Beach. Though I’m a zeide...

The Gift // They were the ugliest things I’d ever seen...

When my husband ceremoniously placed a big brown box on the kitchen table as he walked in from Shacharis, I assumed it was the...

Confronting Anti-Semites // Meet the State Department’s new Special Envoy to...

The date was mid-December, 2003. Mere months had passed since Saddam Hussein’s ouster from power. Iraq lay in ruins; its dictator was lying low...

Scion of Royalty; In Tribute to Rebbetzin Devorah Svei

Rebbetzin Devorah Svei, a”h, passed away last week at the age of 84. The Rebbetzin was a brilliant woman, by all accounts a true...

The Secret Plansto Sabotage Iran // Did The New York Times...

There was a bit of an uproar when The New York Times published two articles on the same day concerning American covert involvement with...

A Cry for Help // The doctors kept insisting that it...

Have you ever had to call poison control? I have. It happened on a lovely day in June, just after I’d bought the pharmacy...

On the Spot and Off the Record // President Trump invites...

For four minutes the email sat in my inbox before I saw it. It was an urgent request from a White House official that...

Remembering The Liezher Rav, zt”l // Rav Yehoshua Zev Meisels of...

The London community and the Jewish world at large were deeply saddened by the passing this Shabbos of Rav Yehoshua Zev Meisels, one of...

Rabbis in Parliament // A group of senior rabbanim and askanim...

Adelegation of senior and leading rabbanim, amongst them the renowned rosh yeshivah Rav Elyakim Schlesinger, as well as Rav Shalom Friedman and Rav Dovid...

Keeping Secrets // Telling my family had too many drawbacks

The first person I called to share the good news after I found out I was expecting was, of course, my mother. “But don’t tell...

Israeli Feminists Vs. Chareidim // On January 15, Israel’s Supreme Court...

The American philosopher and writer Michael Levin hit the proverbial nail on the head with his apt description of feminism. “Although feminism speaks the...

My Daughter Refused to Sit! // No one could explain her...

When my 17-month-old daughter refused to sit down one day after I begged her numerous times, I took a deep breath and mentally prepared...

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Keeps It Up // Ilhan Omar and the...

If you’re a sitting US legislator, and you’ve been accused of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes and you’ve apologized publicly for doing so, we might...

Light in London // A tale of two wheelchair encounters

It happened during Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s recent visit to London, in the confines of a small office in a girls’ school where he...

A Clean Break // Can Clutter Really Impact Your Life?

I am no Marie Kondo—the author and cleaning guru who helps people get organized by keeping only the items that create “sparks of joy”—but...