Memories of a Legendary Grandfather // A conversation with the Sadigura Rebbetzin about...
It was a perfect setting for nostalgia.
The Sadigura Rebbetzin, Rebbetzin Surele Friedman, her daughter Mirelle Margulies and I were sitting outdoors on a beautiful summer evening reminiscing about her famous grandfather, Reb Getzel Berger...
But everyone has one! // a movement to keep kids away from...
Four years ago, two mothers saw what was happening in many of their contemporaries’ homes. In their community it was par for the course that young children were given cellphones, iPads, Nintendo Switches, tablets...
What was wrong with her neck? // doctors blamed anxiety for her hard...
For more than a year, Tara Zier waited in vain for the viselike tightness in her chest and the pain in her neck to subside.
The life of the Northern Virginia dentist had imploded in...
Shaping American Power // A conversation with former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien
Robert C. O’Brien is the chairman of American Global Strategies LLC. He was the 28th United States National Security Advisor from 2019-2021. O’Brien served as the President’s principal advisor on all aspects of American...
Zechusim for Meron Victim, Dovi Steinmetz, z”l // Hundreds of thousands of voices...
Lag BaOmer 2021
The last time Tzvi Steinmetz saw his brother Dovi was high up in the crowd in Meron, smiling and holding two thumbs up.
Dovi was so enthusiastic about being in Meron that he’d...
Images of Hope Amid Darkness // The painting gave widower Chaim Rosenberg comfort, but...
It was a magnificent painting—ethereal, majestic and expressive all at once. It meant the world to a man who had endured so much but who was so resilient and courageous.
Libby Klein, a young mother...
“I was saved from certain death.” // Rabbi Shlomo Noginski reflects on being attacked...
The image of the bloodied arm and hands of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, who was stabbed multiple times on July 1 in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood near the Shaloh House school, where he teaches, drew worldwide...
Babies, Bathwater and Brandeis // A loony list garners groans
Brandeis University’s Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center (PARC) really led with its chin.
Apologies to the Waltham, Massachusetts student group, which I may have offended with that metaphor, whose origins undeniably lie in a violent...
Miami Tragedy // Survivors And Volunteers Describe Scenes Of Horror And Chesed
Last Thursday night, a massive section of a large apartment building in Surfside, Florida, catastrophically collapsed, bringing 12 floors full of sleeping people pancaking downward—and leaving as many as 150 people—men, women and children—trapped...
Purging the poisons // Our son needed to remain hydrated to flush his toxic...
When our eldest son was first diagnosed with osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) after Pesach of last year, we had no inkling of the physically and emotionally draining journey on which he was...





















