“Sometimes I need to give myself a pep talk,” Risa tells me towards the end of our conversation. “Aren’t you supposed to be the...

few kilometers beyond the city of Beit Shemesh, the road wends its way among flowering green fields to the Valley of Elah. Here alongside...

With all the hullabaloo ensuing from US President Donald Trump’s recent encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, the comparatively lesser turmoil surrounding...

Charred cacti, incinerated turtles and snails, black bones of animals that could not escape the fire, thousands of acres of decimated fields. This has...

The train rumbles noisily across the German Fatherland, and for one 14-year-old passenger there is little to do other than stare out the window....

The Ninth of Av 5252 (1492) was a dark day in the history of our people. After living on the Iberian Peninsula for more...

One early November morning nearly four years ago, Anna Brzyska set out from her home in Krakow to the town of Brzesko, called Brigel...

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“Since I am old enough to remember, summers were spent by the beach/pool, eating tuna sandwiches. Or chicken salad depending on my mother’s mood...

“It’s hot out, we’ve been at the pool for a few hours, or sitting outside watching the kids play in the yard or in...

A daring and desperate rescue inside a sprawling cave complex in Thailand has put nerves on edge around the world, with hope for the...

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Is it possible that Bibi Netanyahu was conned by Putin over the promised Iranian pull-out from Syria to the same extent that Donald Trump...

I am driving down a maze of twisty roads into the dusk, guided by the beams of my headlights. It is that in-between time...

“Here we are!” my husband announced as we turned off the main highway onto a small dirt road. We stopped in front of a...

This is not my first conversation with the Polish scholar Marcin Wodzinski. In 2013, following the release of his book on chasidism and politics,...

It all began in 2008, when Miriam began experiencing pain in the joints of her thumb and forefinger. Before long, she realized that the...

On July 21, 2015, Stephen Shapiro was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame. That evening he also received the National Speakers Association’s Council...

Dear Ami: My husband and I find ourselves in a quandary. I’m reaching out to you because you sometimes offer such questions to a panel,...

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