nyone who reads “Lunch Break” each week knows that I ask every person I interview how he deals with stress. While I can honestly say that I’ve spoken to some who went through very...

When I became a mother for the first time, to a gorgeous little girl weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces, I was over the moon with excitement. I envisioned little pink stretchies, singing lullabies to...

It’s three in the morning in Israel when Reb Nechemya answers the phone, but he puts me on hold as he takes another call, and then another. I have been trying to have this...

The phrase “viral video” often bodes ill and references someone’s shameful behavior being publicized, but this past year, a series of videos featuring Ami writer Shloime Zionce went viral because of the positive things...

Patrisse Cullors recently resigned from the lucrative (more than $90 million dollars taken in last year) “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation” she headed for nearly six years. The self-described Marxist will be focusing...

This past Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Netanyahu thanked Graham and declared, “There is no person who has done...

When did you realize that there was a connection between insomnia and dreams? My interest in dreams began when we were looking at sleep disorders in their broadest sense as an outcome of overall mental...

On Wednesday, May 12, I heard glass breaking outside. It was Rosh Chodesh Sivan. Rockets were being fired from Gaza and there had been violence in the Old City of Jerusalem. The vandalism and...

The image appeared in a number of media outlets: Palestinian barber Hashim al-Jarusha cutting customers’ hair atop a pile of rubble, near where his barbershop stood before the conflict between Israel and Gaza began. It...

Legend has it that a group of yeshivah bachurim in Eretz Yisrael once pooled a bunch of money together to send someone roundtrip to JFK to pick up some Dougie’s fire poppers and bring...