It was an unlikely friendship. She was a lovely girl from a heimishe family and lived in Boro Park. I was a Spanish-speaking Sefardi from Florida. She was the middle child in a large family,...

Divorce” is sad, and it’s also difficult for everyone involved. We are torn. What should we do? When and how should we do it? And most importantly, is it really necessary? The answers will be...

Young fathers. Old fathers and grandfathers. Young bachurim. Chasanim. Children. The evening of Lag BaOmer is almost always a time of great joy in the city of Meron, at the kever of Rabbi Shimon bar...

At a time when Orthodox Jews in the United States were often dismissed as irrelevant, Rabbi Herschel Schacter rose to the pinnacle of communal leadership, becoming chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major...

Several summers ago, a teenage Bunim Laskin wanted to go swimming. He found a neighbor who was willing to rent him his pool, and that’s how the idea for Swimply was born. Swimply connects...

It’s just another Sunday, and I’m standing in line at a toy store in Boro Park. Harried parents shift from one foot to the other as they wait. The line stretches down the LEGO...

New York recently joined New Jersey and 14 other states (and DC­—and Canada and Mexico) in legalizing recreational marijuana. The issue is fraught and, like all things these days, contentious. There is much said...

Sometimes I feel like I missed out on a whole wonderful world of natural home remedies simply because the set of grandparents who lived in the same two-family house that I grew up in...

Going to Eretz Yisrael to cut my son’s hair in Meron on Lag BaOmer was a beautiful experience in every sense of the word. The kedushah and joy permeating the air made me feel...

They were just getting by. His day job, teaching music in the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, didn’t pay well enough to cover his family’s expenses; it barely covered their rent in Kew Gardens...