It took mere minutes—quite literally—after the Gaza ceasefire agreement was signed, on October 10, for armed Hamas members to reassert control in Gaza City. Amid the well-warranted euphoria born of the living hostages’ release three...

This story reads like a modern-day super-thriller, replete with treasure maps, secret agents, intrigue, acts of deception and counter-deception, and lots of really bad guys, but you’ll see that truth is stranger than fiction...

It was the morning of Shemini Atzeres, October 9, 1982. For the Jews of the ancient Ghetto of Rome it was an ordinary Yom Tov morning, with no premonition of the chaos to come. Men,...

When I first sat down with Eric Trump in May of 2023 at Trump Tower, the Trump family was, by every measure, under siege. Former President Donald Trump had just been indicted and was facing...

As is the cherished custom of many in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah, I made the journey to Kiryas Yoel to visit the Satmar Rebbe, shlit”a, and present a kvittel. This annual...

Rav Chaim Peretz Berman, Rosh Yeshivas Ponevezh, remembers his illustrious father, Rav Shlomke Berman, zt”l It is an unusually chilly and windy night for Bnei Brak as I ascend an outdoor staircase to a third-floor...

After sitting down with Reb (the “Dr.” part you’ll have to read on to find out about) Abish Mendel for several hours, I felt as though we’d only been speaking a few minutes. We...

Back in the day, when I was a mesivta rebbi, there were times when a piece of chalk I was using to write on a blackboard (if you don’t know what those things are,...

This story reads like a modern-day super-thriller, replete with treasure maps, secret agents, intrigue, acts of deception and counter-deception, and lots of really bad guys, but you’ll see that truth is stranger than fiction...

"Mir zenen shoin zeks doiros in Eretz Yisrael—My family has been living in Eretz Yisrael for six generations,” Rav Menachem Tzvi Berlin begins. “The Netziv’s father is one of my ancestors.” We are sitting in...