Selection 6: Her Heart’s Desire // Hadassah Topperman
It was only a few minutes’ walk from Chaim and Adina’s ground-floor apartment to the childhood home she had left six years earlier. Ever...
Selection 5: Pizza Break // Racheli Lebovics
It’s really amazing that you can spend close to ten hours with someone and not notice how bushy his eyebrows are. Then you hit...
Selection 4: Dangling Earrings // Aviva Frenkel
Reenie slid the bracelet under her sleeve when they left for the sheva brachos and hoped that Nosson wouldn’t notice. But he did.
“Why are...
Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf
soup. She sat beside him as he swallowed spoonful after spoonful, ignoring the two slices of bread she had placed on the plate. Surely...
Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman
It was Cohen in mesivta who first let the cat out of the bag.
“Hey, Spitz,” he said companionably as the group of 15-year-olds headed...
Selection 1: The Check // Reva Braun
"We’re talking peanuts here, Netanel. Drop the price by five million, and I’ll have the papers drawn up today.”
David Rothkopf leaned back in his...
Selection 1: The Check // Riva Braun
"We’re talking peanuts here, Netanel. Drop the price by five million, and I’ll have the papers drawn up today.”
David Rothkopf leaned back in his...
Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman
It was Cohen in mesivta who first let the cat out of the bag.
“Hey, Spitz,” he said companionably as the group of 15-year-olds headed...
Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf
soup. She sat beside him as he swallowed spoonful after spoonful, ignoring the two slices of bread she had placed on the plate. Surely...
Selection 4: Dangling Earrings // Aviva Frenkel
Reenie slid the bracelet under her sleeve when they left for the sheva brachos and hoped that Nosson wouldn’t notice. But he did.
“Why are...
Selection 5: Pizza Break // Racheli Lebovics
The pressure of shidduchim made going home a tempting option
It’s really amazing that you can spend close to ten hours with someone and not...
Selection 6: Her Heart’s Desire // Hadassa Topperman
Two sisters are facing a life altering challenge.
It was only a few minutes’ walk from Chaim and Adina’s ground-floor apartment to the childhood home...
Selection 7: Brave New World // Malky Bornfreund
Their daughter Brachah had gotten married that evening. It was a lovely celebration. Her husband, Gavriel—the quintessential master of ceremonies—had been in his element,...
The Ger Tzedek of Ukraine // A conversation with Yaakov (Igor)...
When I learned that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had a Jewish chaplain by the name of Yaakov Siniakov who was a ger tzedek,...
Is There a Mole in the State Department? // Iran envoy...
“This latest chapter raises serious questions about how the regime obtained this potentially authentic document and what other sensitive or classified information they may...
David Sable // Doable
There are advertising agencies and then there’s Young and Rubicam (today VMLY&R), one of the world’s leading global marketing communications companies. VMLY&R’s former global...
Sorry, Media // Distaste isn’t license to Slander
Photographs of racial prejudice—from the Jim Crow era, from South Africa during its apartheid years and from Nazi Germany—began appearing on social media shortly...
Remembering the Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin // Rav Aharon...
Thousands of talmidim, alumni, admirers and the entire Torah world were thrown into mourning with the passing of Rav Aharon Moshe Schechter, the rsh...
Why Is There a Crime Explosion Among Arab Israelis? //...
“We will employ all means, including the Shin Bet and police, to defeat this criminality. We will eliminate organized crime in Israel’s Arab society....
The Sacklers and OxyContin
Three poor brothers built themselves into a big pharma empire worth billions. But greed would cost the family their company—and millions of lives.
The Sackler...
