If you’ve bought a printed paper product recently, you may have noticed that it has increased in price. If you’ve tried to have something...

I must admit that my conversation with Gedale Fenster went differently than expected. Before speaking with him, I did a bit of research and...

I think my beard is sufficiently white to qualify me to offer some random suggestions for parents/grandparents of little people. A tactic that helped one...

Serves: 10 Ingredients 2½ lbs. potatoes (about 5), peeled and cubed ½ stick (4 tablespoons) butter, divided 1 large onion, diced 1 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste 2 eggs ½ cup potato starch 1...

When Israeli Dr. Hila Haelyon, who was adopted as a child, gave birth for the first time, she tells me she noticed herself behaving...

There is perhaps no Rebbe-chasid relationship more intriguing than the one that bound the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe, Rav Shmuel Yaakov Kohn, with the...

One of the more colorful and charismatic members of the Brisker dynasty was undoubtedly the rosh yeshivah, Rav Yechiel Michel Feinstein (1906–2003), the father...

I am sitting in front of a huge screen, watching high-definition drone footage of a group of men dressed in traditional Yerushalmi garb walking among...

As the plane touches down on the tarmac, the passengers on board break out into thunderous applause. They aren’t just clapping their hands, they...

It’s intriguing. Three words are used to refer to yetzias Mitzrayim (yetziah, geirush and shiluach; see, for examples, Shemos, 20:2, 11:1 and 8:17). And...

Yields: 2 (7-inch) round pans or 1 (10-inch) round pan Dacquoise 7 egg whites ¾ cup plus ¾ cup granulated sugar, divided 1½ cups almond flour or ground...

Yields: 1 (9-inch) round cake or 12 individual cakes 10–11 oz. quality dark chocolate 1 tablespoon quality granulated coffee 10 large eggs, separated ¼ cup sugar plus ⅓...

A few weeks ago, I went to a store to get some new spring clothes for my girls. When I walked in, I noticed...

How long does the recipient of a favor need to be grateful to the giver? A week? A year? Thanks to our cherished relationship...

Walking up to the guard’s booth at the entrancE to City Hall Park in Downtown Manhattan, one notices immediately that there is a new...

In Israel, preparations—security preparations, that is—are underway for the Muslim month of Ramadan, a month that has come to be known as one characterized...

Two friends of mine told me, “Speak to Josh Abehsera—he has a creative mind, a real interesting story, and he is a driving force...

In the United States, we have gotten used to a string of politicians downplaying the Holocaust, comparing it to vaccination programs, mask requirements, and...

A line in Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Israeli lawmakers stopped me cold. Like most people, at least those of us outside of Vladimir...

Vladimir Putin expressed his pain over what he called the West’s “cancellation” of performances of Russian composers’ works because of the immeasurably greater pain...