Jewish Life in a Gulf State: A conversation with Mr. Solly...
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a picture of the world’s tallest hotel in the Guinness Book of World Records. It was...
“Law and Order” and the Jews: How it started a shift...
"I am your president of law and order,” Donald Trump declared in his June 1 address to the nation. The president and his speechwriters...
From Boro Park to the Treasury: A conversation with Moshe (Mitchell)...
Full disclosure: Moshe (Mitchell) Silk and I are personal friends. We have known each other for a number of years and daven in the...
Save Our Small Businesses: Meet the four women who sparked a...
Parnasah is not something to be taken lightly; we daven for it on Rosh Hashanah because it affects just about everything else in our...
Tasty Tomato Soup: Fulfilling an old promise
Nathalie is a friend and nutritionist who specializes in weight lost. I teamed up with her to write this feature. She has great tips...
No Request Too Small: It may be remembered forever
After the economic crash due to the coronavirus pandemic, Shimon Arbel, the principal of Ulpanat Amana, a religious girls’ school in Kfar Saba, was...
Two Families and a Diplomat: Was it more than a coincidence...
On June 15, 1940, a tall diamond cutter and chess champion stood in line with hundreds of other Jews waiting for a ticket out...
First Day Blues: the eighteen months begin
As if someone wanted to summarize and condense Netanyahu’s career into one day and create a portrait that tells the entire story, last Sunday...
The Churchill Deportees: Forgotten Round-Up in Wartime England
Winston Churchill is rightly remembered as the courageous wartime leader who led and inspired England to resist the Nazi onslaught at a time when...
My Daughter’s Special Wedding: Not exactly what we planned
We could never have imagined how things would ultimately turn out when we first started planning our daughter’s wedding.
The kallah would be the first...
The Reunion: A favor is repaid manyfold
I was sitting on my couch, casually flipping through Ami Magazine. In the business column “Lunchbreak,” I read an interview about a Jewish billionaire...
Time Warp: After the “c” is over
I am prefacing my words by saying “bli neder,” which, I am told, in my Litivisher tradition is almost as bad as promising to...
The Senator from Texas: A conversation with Republican Senator Ted Cruz
One of the best friends of the Jewish community in the United States Senate is undoubtedly Ted Cruz, the Republican from Texas. As my...
In the Eye of the Firestorm: What it was like in...
Going into Pesach, tensions were running high as fear of the unknown overwhelmed the Minneapolis Jewish community. The COVID-19 pandemic was advancing with record...
Facing Your Fears: How I conquered my anxiety
Riki Fried recently contacted us. She told us about how she began suffering from anxiety decades ago. This was, as she explained, “At...
Mindful Eating: Yes, you can flatten the curve
Nathalie is a friend and nutritionist who specializes in weight lost. I teamed up with her to write this feature. She has great tips...
For the First Time, an Eruv in Stamford Hill: A grassroots...
There is almost nothing quite as controversial in Jewish communities as an eruv, but the coronavirus outbreak may have been more powerful than that....
An Uplifting Moment: Who’s that outside my window?
Due to COVID-19, all hospitals and nursing homes in New York have banned visitors from their facilities. While the rule is in place to...
Fueling the Mission: My cycle of loss, acceptance, and liberation after...
Friday, 26 Iyar 2018
It was the Friday before Mother’s Day weekend, a warm and sunny day that was typical of our hometown. I was in...
Hope: a small pharmaceutical company seems to be on the right...
For the first time in a long time, I am optimistic that we can dodge the bullet of COVID-19, no matter how nasty its...
