Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news, but we clung...
Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would be our sixth. I was due after Pesach, and let’s...
The Flower Frenzy // We thought our Shavuos gift was taken care of
Erev Shavuos afternoon found me rushing around the house doing some last-minute tasks. Yom Tov was fast approaching, and I was frantically trying to cram the last few items into the suitcase as I...
Rav Leibel Stempel // In a series of conversations, Rav Leibel Stempel reflects...
Life and death are in the power of the tongue,” says Shlomo Hamelech in Mishlei (18:21). I recently experienced that truism when I was sitting shivah for my mother, a”h hk”m, and Rav Leibel...
John Kerry’s Iranian Friends // Reports of the former secretary of state leaking...
John Kerry prides himself on his relationships with senior officials of some of the world’s most notorious regimes, ties that he says have led to diplomatic breakthroughs. But now Kerry’s secret contacts with Iranian...
Torah Partnerships in the Workplace // The Phenomenon of Adopt-a-Kollel Corporate
Seven years ago, the Torah world in Eretz Yisrael was in crisis. The Yesh Atid Party wielded much power in the government and slashed the budget for kollel stipends to an unprecedented low. As...
Is This the Baal Shem Tov’s Sefer Torah? // A mysterious Torah scroll discovered...
For many years, Rabbi Yisroel Aharon Kletzkin has been scouring the world for ancient sifrei Torah, and he has discovered quite a few that are very significant. But by all indications, one particular Torah...
Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news, but we...
Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would be our sixth. I was due after Pesach, and let’s...
Beyond The Piping Bag // It’s never just been about a passion for pastry...
The story I’m about to share with you will take us across many settings and continents...from the crime-ridden streets of Bogotá, where children ride to school in buses with bulletproof glass...to the ritzy promenade...
Nixing the Shidduch Pix // Lisa Elefant is leading a group of over 200...
If you have a child currently in the shidduch parshah, you might have noticed that the shidduch résumés you’ve been sent in the past week or so have not come along with a photo.
“For...
Tweet Control // Are social media bans on a former president fair…or legal?
“I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!”
That is the last message on former President Donald Trump’s Facebook page, posted this past January 6, after supporters of the...





















