Netanyahu Indicted // What it means for israel and the elections

With a trembling voice and downcast eyes, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit stood in front of the cameras this past Thursday and announced his...

How Iran got the US to build Israel // Israel is...

T he US government has quietly constructed a series of military facilities inside the State of Israel that cost many hundreds of millions of dollars....

Between Iraq and a Hard Place // Alone with the...

RECAP: When Turx was invited to join a group of American journalists to cover the first Iraqi elections since the fall of ISIS, he...

Last Names Can be Deceiving // Please don’t judge me by...

The question is inevitable. Whenever I introduce myself, something clicks. “Oh, your father-in-law is so-and-so?” Yes, that’s my father-in-law. He’s the one whose name you...

Direct from Dubai // A candid conversation with Dubai billionaire Khalaf...

Judging by the look on the face of the male receptionist, I can tell that he has never met a chasidic Jew before. It’s...

Belated Burial // A chesed shel emes performed decades later

I am making my way to the Vizhnitz beis hachaim to attend an unusual levayah—a funeral for the unidentified remains of Jews who were murdered...

Zeidy and the President // It wasn’t good for Zeidy to...

“He’s the best thing that ever happened to us!” my beloved grandfather shouted, a vein in his face bulging, as it always did when...

Buried Treasure // A renovation uncovers a community’s past

On that fateful day, the construction workers had arrived as usual at the Jewish elementary school located on Malzgasse 16 in Vienna, Austria. The...

An Ounce of Prevention // An alert on an unusually...

“He had a small infection on his elbow,” recalled Mrs. Wiseman, a young mother of two children who lives in Brooklyn. “It was treated...