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Rifles, Rubble and the Riviera

Shloime Zionce heads deep inside the Gaza Strip and returns with a personal account of life on the front lines in Israel’s war against Hamas I’m lowering myself into an IDF Merkava MK.4M tank and...

The View From Post-Nasrallah Lebanon

Among other roles and positions, seasoned lobbyist Toni Nissi is head of the Aramean Democratic Organization in Lebanon. The Arameans—whose native tongue is Syriac Aramaic rather than Arabic—are one of the earliest Christian communities...

Daniel Jundef // C&A Iron Works

Several people suggested that I speak to Daniel Jundef, who runs C&A Iron Works. The odds are that if you have davened in a shul in Borough Park at anytime in the past several...

Nasty Blast from the Past // Measles is baaaack

There are upsides to being a baby boomer. Among them: senior discounts, wisdom born of decades of experience, einiklach, if one has been so blessed…and immunity to measles. That’s because those of us who were...

Trump’s Tariff’s and His Other Economic Policies

President Donald Trump wasted no time after he came into office for his second term in making strong economic moves—and he still has more to go. We’re still waiting to see what their full...

The Life and Legacy of Rav Nota Schiller zt”l

From the Brooklyn streets of Brownsville and East Flatbush in the 1940s, a ten-year-old public school boy immersed in stickball, basketball and with dreams of becoming a shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers enters a...

Mendy Gorodetsky // Asbestways Service Corp.

Some people simply present themselves as businessmen. Mendy Gorodetsky is one of them. As soon as you begin speaking to him, you understand that he is someone who understands how to run a business....

I Like Mike // A champion is criticized, an isolationist ignored

A Reform movement leader has taken aim at Mike Huckabee, contending that the former Arkansas governor and current nominee to serve as US Ambassador to Israel is unfit for that position. Jonah Dov Pesner, who...

The Bourbon Rabbi

A talk with Rabbi Chaim Litvin about the Jewish connections and the halachic issues of a glass of whiskey Kentucky. The name itself conjures up visions of racehorses, Kentucky bluegrass—and a certain type of whiskey....

Purim Lunchbreak!

Welcome to a special edition of Purim Lunchbreak. For this week's article, I reached out to previous Lunchbreak interviewees and asked them for their funniest/craziest story that also imparted a lesson. I also received...