Captured!

This past weekend, the Trump administration finally took a step it had been threatening for a couple of months: a massive military action in...

Shabbos Under Shock In Caracas

It was 2:00 a.m. on Friday night when Rabbi Yitzchak Garzon and his family were suddenly awakened by the sound of explosions that shook...

Barry Cik

Many of the most successful businesses begin with a problem. An entrepreneur encounters an issue, finds a solution and builds a product or service...

Pence Sense

Displeasure over Kevin Roberts’ refusal to distance the Heritage Foundation from Tucker Carlson for offering neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes a platform has yielded something...

From Alcoholism to a Life of Torah Study

Born and raised in Monsey, New York, Rabbi Shmuel Luger’s trajectory to becoming a rosh yeshivah is nothing short of extraordinary. From a very...

Is There Any End to Anti-Jewish Bias in Media?

“Claims against Israel seem to be raced to air or online without adequate checks, evidencing either carelessness or a desire always to believe the...

A New Way to Get Money for your Baby

Among the pages of the Republican tax bill passed into law in July is something called a Trump Account, a way to invest for...

Vance Stance

Much attention was paid, for good reason, to the recent sold-out convention of Turning Point USA, the group The New York Times describes as...

A Daughter’s Regrets

Dear Ima, I don’t know how to do this. I sit here beside you, watching you struggle for breath, fighting for life, and I am...

America’s New Czar Against Global Anti-Semitism

Born in Kfar Chabad, Israel, into a Lubavitcher family, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun was raised with deep roots in Jewish communal life. His parents served...

The Islamist Movement America Won’t Confront

The words “Free Palestine” were followed by fire—an attack with three Molotov cocktails. The attack in June on a group of Jews marching in Boulder,...

Munish (Josh) Klein // KWEV

In all likelihood, you either own a Tesla or your kids have asked you to get one. Around 10% of people in the US...

Brazen Bill // Is killing killers overkill?

In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Shalom Har-Melech and his wife Limor, expecting their second child, were attacked by Palestinian gunmen while in their...

The Enduring Fire of Torah and Avodah

Rav Yitzchok Kolodetsky, a son-in-law of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l, is a distinguished gaon and tzaddik in his own right. Known for his asceticism...

The City that Refused to Fade

How healthy is the European shtetl? Our ongoing series “The Health of the American Shtetl” has looked at the state that smaller American Jewish communities...

Rabbi Yossi Eliav // US Virtual Guard (USVG) & Real...

This Lunchbreak is a little different from the usual. For the first time, I’m featuring someone I personally mentored and watched grow up. I’ve...

Truculent Troika’s Tribulations

You may never have heard of “crab mentality,” but it’s a real thing, a metaphor derived from anecdotal claims about crustaceans confined to an...

Finding my Father

Chanukah is about miracles. Ours wasn’t a joyful one. But after 20 years of not knowing what happened to my father, learning the truth...

The Extraordinary Music of Yaakov Shwekey

Through the grimy window of a post-war train carrying displaced people across Europe, a man saw a shadow. A silhouette. And suddenly he knew. It...

Torah Values in Diplomacy

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Yechiel Leiter was appointed Israel’s ambassador to the United States on January 27, 2025. An ordained rabbi, educator and longtime...