You might not know of the concept of weighted blankets, but millions of people use them every night to fall asleep—myself included. Weighted blankets...

Let me tell you about the time I buried a Reform rabbi. Literally. Back in the 1980s, my wife and I and our children lived in...

Few people will ever forget the Internet Asifah, the huge rally that was held at Citi Field and the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens...

“I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the...

A small thing you might not know about me is that I am an addict—a sefarim addict. Besides several bookcases stacked in double layers,...

In an irony as rich as premium full-fat ice cream, Ben & Jerry’s, the frozen confection company that objected last year to its product...

In this column, we give you the opportunity to listen in on a discussion between Rabbi Shais Taub and a reader with a dilemma,...

My earliest memory is vividly imprinted in my mind. I see a younger version of myself curled up on the floor of the hallway...

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt was the chief rabbi of Moscow from 1993 until 2022, and he served as rabbi of the Moscow Choral Synagogue from...

“Due to the ongoing official investigations into the disappearance of a foreign journalist, there is no official statement yet.” —Comments by Bassem al-Awadi, an Iraqi...

The headlines read “Billionaire Jay Bloom saved from submarine disaster.” For quite some time after the doomed Titan submersible sank on June 18 while...

Priceless as it was predictable, terrorist groups reacted to Israel’s recent “Operation Home and Garden” in Jenin by… celebrating their triumph. That, with the raided...

David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) served as the United States ambassador to Israel under President Trump from May 15, 2017, until January...

“This is an important victory for Americans of all faiths, who may now follow their religious consciences in the workplace.” —Aaron Streett of Baker Botts,...

Although Mortin (Matisyahu Aharon) Levy, a longtime commodities trader, is now retired, we had to schedule our conversation for early evening because he still...

I take a seat second to no one when it comes to alacrity in detecting and pointing out anti-Orthodox bias. Exposing such bias has...

Summer vacation in Britain and Europe is different from that of North America. Holidays, as the summer vacation is known in Britain, starts from...

“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet...

During my conversation with Israeli pilot and war veteran turned entrepreneur Kobi Regev, I suggested that he make a specific addition to the lessons...

In a widely viewed recent video clip, an Israeli woman on a bus gave a chareidi man a hard time—about his being chareidi. The bus...