Columbia’s new Jews // The South American country is seeing...
In 2009, I was taking my daughter to the Centro Israelita de Beneficencia (CIB) for Hebrew school when the taxi driver asked me if...
Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news, ...
Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would...
The Flower Frenzy // We thought our Shavuos gift was taken...
Erev Shavuos afternoon found me rushing around the house doing some last-minute tasks. Yom Tov was fast approaching, and I was frantically trying to...
Rav Leibel Stempel // In a series of conversations, Rav...
Life and death are in the power of the tongue,” says Shlomo Hamelech in Mishlei (18:21). I recently experienced that truism when I was...
John Kerry’s Iranian Friends // Reports of the former secretary...
John Kerry prides himself on his relationships with senior officials of some of the world’s most notorious regimes, ties that he says have led...
Torah Partnerships in the Workplace // The Phenomenon of Adopt-a-Kollel Corporate
Seven years ago, the Torah world in Eretz Yisrael was in crisis. The Yesh Atid Party wielded much power in the government and slashed...
Is This the Baal Shem Tov’s Sefer Torah? // A mysterious...
For many years, Rabbi Yisroel Aharon Kletzkin has been scouring the world for ancient sifrei Torah, and he has discovered quite a few that...
Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news,...
Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would...
Beyond The Piping Bag // It’s never just been about a...
The story I’m about to share with you will take us across many settings and continents...from the crime-ridden streets of Bogotá, where children ride...
Nixing the Shidduch Pix // Lisa Elefant is leading a group...
If you have a child currently in the shidduch parshah, you might have noticed that the shidduch résumés you’ve been sent in the past...
Tweet Control // Are social media bans on a former president...
“I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!”
That is the last message on former President Donald Trump’s Facebook...
A Chance Meeting // Outrunning a storm but not a friendship
It was an unlikely friendship.
She was a lovely girl from a heimishe family and lived in Boro Park. I was a Spanish-speaking Sefardi from...
What No One Told Me Before I Got Divorced // Some...
Divorce” is sad, and it’s also difficult for everyone involved.
We are torn. What should we do? When and how should we do it? And...
The Tragedy In Meron // A disaster at Meron leaves ...
Young fathers. Old fathers and grandfathers. Young bachurim. Chasanim. Children.
The evening of Lag BaOmer is almost always a time of great joy in the...
Responding to Buchenwald // Understanding the impact Buchenwald made on Rabbi...
At a time when Orthodox Jews in the United States were often dismissed as irrelevant, Rabbi Herschel Schacter rose to the pinnacle of communal...
Bunim Laskin // Swimply
Several summers ago, a teenage Bunim Laskin wanted to go swimming. He found a neighbor who was willing to rent him his pool, and...
RSV // The virus that went viral in the heimishe community
It’s just another Sunday, and I’m standing in line at a toy store in Boro Park. Harried parents shift from one foot to the...
The Marijuana Express // The train has left the station
New York recently joined New Jersey and 14 other states (and DC—and Canada and Mexico) in legalizing recreational marijuana. The issue is fraught and,...
Try this at home // Home remedies that really work
Sometimes I feel like I missed out on a whole wonderful world of natural home remedies simply because the set of grandparents who lived...
The key to faith // Two takeaways from one trip
Going to Eretz Yisrael to cut my son’s hair in Meron on Lag BaOmer was a beautiful experience in every sense of the word....
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