Yoely (Joel) Neuman // Hiring 4 Less
After I finish speaking to someone for the “Lunchbreak” column, I usually ask them to send me photos to feature in the article: at...
Slippery Slur // What exactly is a “Socialist”?
Leave it to a heated election to yield outrageousness.
A Conservative (in its “Jewish movement” sense) clergywoman, Lauren Holtzblatt, cited the Torah as a basis...
Aiming for Victory in Gaza // A conversation with Daniel Pipes,...
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949), whose parents escaped German-occupied Poland with their respective families during World War II, is a former professor and...
From Divorce to Happiness // A conversation with Rabbi Elimelech Friedman
Rabbi Elimelech Friedman, a marriage and relationship coach based in Williamsburg, made news a few months ago when he released a video describing how...
Jack Abraham // Precious Gem Resources
Jack Abraham, the “Ruby Baron” of New York, has had an interesting life, both before and after his founding of Precious Gem Resources 45...
The Vote’s in the Mail // Remotely-cast ballots’ impact on election...
It was 1972 and I was studying in Yeshivas Kol Torah in Bayit Vegan when I received a summons from the American Embassy. When...
The Questionable Kashrus of Countless Sifrei Torah // A conversation with...
To the great chagrin of the frum community, it has recently been discovered that many of the sifrei Torah coming to America from Eretz...
Is Google Biased Against Donald Trump? // As the search engine...
“Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump! Election interference?”
—Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a supporter of Trump, discussing the fact that for...
Mendel Erlenwein // CareCo and Previva
One of the most enjoyable forms of feedback I get from readers is when people tell me that they learned something valuable from this...
Progeria and Politics // Maybe money shouldn’t fuel elections
The appearance within days of two very different articles got some of my brain cells firing.
One was about a rare disease and the other...
The Preservation of Torah in Challenging Times // A visit with...
The driver of the taxi that brought me here told me that Chevron is the best yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael, on a level that...
How to Counter the Iranian Threat // A conversation with Israel’s...
Eliyahu Yossian was born in the Iranian city of Isfahan in 1980. After completing 12 years of education in Muslim schools, he went on...
Yanky Rottenberg // EzCloud
One of the things I enjoy most about writing the “Lunchbreak” column is when my conversation with an entrepreneur ends up being entirely different...
Wild Turkey // Which of Erdoğan’s colors are the true ones?
The balance of good and evil in the world was favorably altered a bit last week, as the scales’ darker pan was lightened by...
The Druze community // A conversation with Eddie Nevoani, an Israeli...
Over the weekend, Hezbollah fired a missile into Israel, killing 12 children and teens on a soccer field—and the world yawned.
The horrific deaths in...
Project 2025-Is it Dangerous? // A conservative plan becomes election...
“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying, and...
Setting the Stage // How Lakewood businesses got involved in a...
Donald Trump has garnered tremendous support from the frum community, both during his previous election campaigns and his current bid to become the 47th...
Rightly Raised Eyebrows // A rabid anti-Semite leaves the stage
Liars and tricksters and bunk, oh my!
Powered by the anything-goes engine of social media (“antisocial media” might be a better moniker), there have been...
The Twists and Turns of the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
After the first presidential debate, on June 27, movers and shakers in the Democratic Party began pushing Joe Biden to abandon his run for...
Kamala Harris and the Jews
When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, Vice President Kamala Harris denounced the terrorists as “barbaric” and “heinous,” and she said she wholeheartedly supported...
