"Aim for the moon,” goes the popular saying, “because even if you miss you’ll land among the stars.” Occasionally, though, one attains even more...

There is something especially divine about the mountains in the Jerusalem region, which are described by Dovid Hamelech as the place of G-d’s foundation...

It’s funny what stays with you months after a frightening event. Ridiculous as it was, as the ambulance sped through the winding Catskill Mountains,...

Someone turning to the secular Israeli media for their news might be surprised to find themselves listening to a chareidi woman. Sivan Rahav Meir...

A Rebbetzin, one might think, earns her title because she is married to a Rebbe. The Belzer Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Sara Rokeach, née Hager, a...

The best recipes make the rounds of friends and neighbors...and this one came to my sister Suri from her great friend Etty J. Etty...

On any given Shabbos, you can pop into my sister Leah’s home and find her island laid out with goodies that have just come...

4 cups heavy cream or nondairy creamer 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup sugar ¼ cup water 6 egg yolks, at room temperature whipped cream, for garnish confectioner’s sugar, for garnish Preheat...

It was the next-to-last day for Sean Spicer in his role as press secretary when I spied him a bit farther down the hall,...

Americans remember Franklin D. Roosevelt as the president who led our country in the war against Nazi Germany. But stunning new research by Prof....

At the urging of leading gedolei Yisrael, a campaign has begun this year in Eretz Yisrael to have everyone sign a heter iska when...

A day before my husband and I were due to fly to Zurich, I happened to read that Zurich is rated the quietest city...

Klal Yisrael was plunged into mourning with the passing of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, Rav Mordechai Hager, zt”l. The Rebbe was revered and...

A BIG DECISION Laurie’s story has a happily-ever-after ending, but being in the US Navy is not for the fainthearted. What drew this nice soft-spoken...

Eighteen-year-old Meadow Pollack was one of the 17 students who were shot to death by a lone gunman on February 14, 2018 at the...

The following is the once-a-year dialogue in the Horowitz household: Me: Can you go through all of your hanging clothes and throw out whichever ones...

‘‘Who wants to climb Masada?” The tone was rhetorical but I stared at the looming mountain and thought, well this is easy stuff. It...

You can prepare a larger icebox cake using large round shmurah matzos or machine matzah. You’ll need additional mousse, depending on the number of...

Once you learn how to prepare a refreshing granita, you can prepare granitas of any flavor. Try mango, watermelon, or even grape. 1 cup water 1...

This is a light and refreshing dessert to have in the fridge and enjoy after a dairy meal. A compote made of peaches, nectarines,...