Barry Slovinsky // Eight to Eighty Eyewear
Barry Slovinsky is one of the largest manufacturers and sellers of fashion-forward value eyewear. Despite a difficult beginning, Barry built his company from scratch and turned it into an industry giant. Today he sells...
Lipstadt in the Lurch // Blunt tweets for me but not for thee
Most people recognize the name Deborah Lipstadt from the libel lawsuit brought against her in 2000 in the UK by David Irving, a fellow historian, whom she called a Holocaust denier for, among other...
Caution or Tyranny? // New York City’s yeshivos and private schools face a vaccine...
Over the last few days, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been busy mandating. Last week, he put in place a mandate that would require all private school employees to be vaccinated against...
Blast from the Past // How I played Sherlock Holmes ...
Thomas Wolfe, a famous American novelist of the early 20th century, once said, “You can’t go home again.” For members of the Orthodox Jewish community, this isn’t true.
A few months ago, I received a...
Creamy White Winter Soup
Yield: 6 servings
1 (24-oz.) bag frozen cauliflower, sprinkled with salt and pepper
6 tablespoons oil
2 Spanish onions, diced
White part of 1 large leek, sliced
2 parsnips, peeled and sliced
1 turnip, peeled and sliced
4 medium potatoes, chopped
32...
Sacred Duty // Rav Dovid Hofstedter remembers how his father Reb Nosson Nota Hofstedter...
My father grew up in Hungary, but it was near Oiberland (Slovakia), so he was under the oiberlander influence and held by the shitah of the Chasam Sofer. His rosh yeshivah was Rav Shmuel...
Chicken & Broccoli Soup
Yield: 6 servings
½ cup oil
4 onions, diced
6 cloves garlic, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
2 large carrots, chopped
1 (24-oz.) bag frozen broccoli
1 cup almond milk
6 cups chicken broth
½ cup flour
Salt and pepper, to taste
2 chicken breasts,...
Puzzled by the Pressure // Giving birth didn’t ease a woman’s dangerous hypertension...
Through the haze of exhaustion and elation that often characterizes the first disorienting weeks of motherhood, Karen Good felt something else: a gnawing fear for her own health.
Good, then 41, had given birth to...
the Palestinian Authority Pleads Poverty // Their finances remain opaque and donors don’t...
The headline was striking: “Despite Unprecedented Income, PA Still Begs for Charity.
In fact, Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli research institute, noted that the Palestinian Authority’s monthly financial reports showed that its revenue—from taxes and...
Strawberry Fluff with a Breadstick Gate
Yield: 5 servings
1 (16-oz.) container whip topping
1 (13-oz.) container marshmallow fluff
1 (16-oz.) bag frozen strawberries, puréed
1 (4.41-oz.) package plain breadsticks
Pink food color spray, 12 oz. pink chocolate or pink candy melts (melted), or 1...





















