The Daze, Numbered // All in a 100 days’ work

From the Corps’ Core: How Good Were the Good Old Days? As FDR assumed office at the height of the Great Depression, he requested from the American people a period of 100 days before they render...

Home again // Fitting in after being away

As soon as we put away our Pesach keilim, the boys start collecting. After Yom Hazikaron, no piece of wood is safe: tables, chairs, pallets, trees ripped out of the ground. The boys are...

Ariel Assaraf // Coralogix

You visit a popular website and spend two hours carefully selecting your items and, just when you’re about to check out, something goes wrong. Either your items disappear from your cart or the page...

A Most Unusual Upsherin // How an upsherin went from being a quarantined...

Zevy Fasten, of Brooklyn, New York, is your typical energetic three-year-old. On Shushan Purim of last year a new baby sister turned him from an only child into a big brother. Zevy’s third birthday was...

Yetzias Kaufering // Pesach Sheini, April 27, 1945

My father-in-law, around 20 years old at the time, lay among dead bodies in Kaufering, part of the Dachau concentration camp complex. Yisrael Yitzchak Cohen and his fellow inmates had heard a rumor days earlier...

Unsafe Streets in Yerushalayim // Recent Arab attacks on chareidim have led to chaos...

A wave of Arab attacks on chareidi Jews in Yerushalayim has led to fear for the average citizen of the city. The month of Ramadan is always very tense in Yerushalayim. Tens of thousands of Muslims...

Not Who They Claimed to Be // A missionizing couple is exposed in...

Her close friends stood around her hospital bed, holding her hand as she took her last breaths. For years now, the chareidi community in French Hill had rallied to help Amanda Elkohen in every...

Dairy White Chocolate Pretzel Blondies

I know that come Shavuot time you’re going to see lots of fancy pretty dairy desserts. But you really need something like this...something basic that you can mix in one bowl, but still feels...

Persistence and Preparatıon // By land or by sea, there is no such thing...

“Covert bomb” is a contradiction in terms. Once bombs go off (if they go off), they are no longer a secret. The enemy knows it is being attacked and must take countermeasures. The only...

No One Is in Charge // Is Israel Ready to try direct elections?

Another stormy week full of meetings and negotiations ended without a solution for Israel’s political quagmire. However, there is a suggestion in the offing that might have some chance at bringing about a resolution—direct...