Recent media reports about the current and previous presidents provided me a new insight into a famous Gemara. President Biden is famously gaffe-prone, and has...

Yield: About 18   1¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice  ½ teaspoon kosher salt 1 (15-oz.) can pumpkin 2 large eggs ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted...

Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943) served as the 50th speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A professor...

For much of modern Russian history, anti-Semitism has hardly been restrained. From the pogroms under the czars to the anti-Jewish policies of the Soviet...

To dust off an old joke: The nurse, after fluffing Mr. Goldberg’s pillow, asks him if he’s comfortable. He responds, “Eh, I make a...

Rechov Chavakuk in Bnei Brak is a tight, winding road, almost too snug to fit my car. After parking semi-legally near number 20 (in...

The Marcus family is obviously quite musical. You’re a very popular singer, and your brothers Shmuly and Bentzion formed the 8th Day band, which...

I used to pass the fellow each morning as I walked up Broadway in lower Manhattan on my way to work. He would stand...

Serves 8 Soup: 1 tablespoon avocado oil (or any neutral oil) 2 leeks, sliced 2 onions, sliced 2 teaspoons crushed garlic 2 lbs. frozen broccoli  1 teaspoon smoked garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion...

I had been trying to reach my married son for several days, but he hadn’t been taking my calls, nor answering my increasingly worried...

There is no day in the year that is more mesugal for shidduchim than Yom Kippur.  The Mishnah in Taanis (26b) states: “Rabban Shimon ben...

My earliest memory of Rav Yehuda Bauer, or Rav Yudel, as he is more commonly known, is of him arriving at my brother’s bar...

When, a number of years ago, my dear father, z”l, showed me his new “shofar shoes,” I was reminded of how uniquely Jews steeped...

Yom Kippur isn’t considered a time of business, but in reality, there are many tefillos we recite that are about our parnasah and well-being....

Yom Kippur isn’t considered a time of business, but in reality, there are many tefillos we recite that are about our parnasah and well-being....

In October 2021, with COVID still raging around the world, I receive a pale blue letter from the New Jersey courts requesting my participation...

Rechov Habukharim right off Rechov Yechezkel is a long way from Givat Mordechai, where Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael, more commonly known as Yeshivas Chevron, is...

It was a steamy summer evening in 1961. A light breeze wafted in from the seashore towards the magnificent mansion on Wadi Abu Jamal...

The small blue house is located on a relatively quiet street in Austin, Texas. It’s quite late on a Friday afternoon, and I’ve just...

We’re so used to the phrase, we don’t think about what it means. I speak of “Ultra Orthodox,” the common description of Jews for whom,...