To a passerby strolling past the corner of 14th Avenue and 56th Street in Boro Park, it looks like an ordinary residence. It’s a sprawling three-story red brick house, with a well-tended garden in...

Over the past few weeks, the chareidi parties have been working to ensure that the hillula of the Rashbi in Meron will take place as usual—in line with the elimination of most COVID restrictions—thanks...

It’s always been disturbing, in fact painful, to witness the monthly antics of the “Women of the Wall,” the vocal, militant Israeli feminist group intent on turning the Kosel Hamaaravi from a place of...

The Walmarks were a family of three, plus one: Dovi and Aliza, their three-year-old daughter Abby—and their housekeeper, Maria (name changed). Maria had been with the Walmarks for a year and was Aliza’s right...

I first landed on Suri Hoffman’s couch not long after my husband and I split up. I had just gotten over a pretty serious bout of depression that I didn’t particularly care to talk...

In much of the developed world these days, looking up towards the night sky isn’t as rewarding as it should be. Ambient light has made the stars dimly visible, if at all, and the...

“Are you Moshe Klein? Come here.” It was around noon and I had just deplaned in Hargeisa, Somaliland, when I heard someone calling my name. This was perhaps the most adventurous trip I had taken to...

At the age of two, my perfectly happy and healthy daughter turned into a miserable toddler I didn’t recognize. My angelic baby, who had so far reached all of her developmental milestones on time,...

Weird things are happening in the Middle East. Iran is talking peace from across the street to an American delegation, shuttling sensitive discussions back and forth through intermediaries. At least they are talking, albeit...

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” is a well-known aphorism (probably wrongly) attributed to Albert Einstein. That’s certainly one way to describe the...