America’s New Czar Against Global Anti-Semitism
Born in Kfar Chabad, Israel, into a Lubavitcher family, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun was raised with deep roots in Jewish communal life. His parents served...
The Islamist Movement America Won’t Confront
The words “Free Palestine” were followed by fire—an attack with three Molotov cocktails.
The attack in June on a group of Jews marching in Boulder,...
Munish (Josh) Klein // KWEV
In all likelihood, you either own a Tesla or your kids have asked you to get one. Around 10% of people in the US...
Brazen Bill // Is killing killers overkill?
In 2003, during the Second Intifada, Shalom Har-Melech and his wife Limor, expecting their second child, were attacked by Palestinian gunmen while in their...
The Enduring Fire of Torah and Avodah
Rav Yitzchok Kolodetsky, a son-in-law of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l, is a distinguished gaon and tzaddik in his own right. Known for his asceticism...
The City that Refused to Fade
How healthy is the European shtetl?
Our ongoing series “The Health of the American Shtetl” has looked at the state that smaller American Jewish communities...
Rabbi Yossi Eliav // US Virtual Guard (USVG) & Real...
This Lunchbreak is a little different from the usual. For the first time, I’m featuring someone I personally mentored and watched grow up. I’ve...
Truculent Troika’s Tribulations
You may never have heard of “crab mentality,” but it’s a real thing, a metaphor derived from anecdotal claims about crustaceans confined to an...
Finding my Father
Chanukah is about miracles. Ours wasn’t a joyful one. But after 20 years of not knowing what happened to my father, learning the truth...
The Extraordinary Music of Yaakov Shwekey
Through the grimy window of a post-war train carrying displaced people across Europe,
a man saw a shadow. A silhouette. And suddenly he knew.
It...


















