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....
All the good things we got // No matter where he...
They were just getting by. His day job, teaching music in the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, didn’t pay well enough to cover his...
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