To really understand how Dovid Fishbein got me to go out on a date with a woman from out of town three days before Purim, you would have to know him. But to describe...

When I spoke to Dr. Chaya Ostrower of Tel Aviv, author of It Kept Us Alive: Humor in the Holocaust, she stated categorically that “this research should not be construed as laughing at the...

Purim 1986. Brooklyn, New York. My chasan, Nachman, asked me to help him check his new megillah. He leined from the megillah, and I followed in a Chumash. Every word was perfect. I was 18....

“Before the revolution, Iran was a Westernized country where its citizens enjoyed freedom of religion and other rights. But when Khomeini came into power, our freedoms were taken away little by little,” she begins....

“You have to realize that I’m in a bit of a different situation from other performers because I perform for children, which means that I have to set an example,” Moshe Tanenbaum, who is...

I’m not easily outraged. Okay, maybe I am. Sometimes. But there are times, surely we must all agree, when censure is called for, when holy traditions are profaned by self-styled reformers, when illegitimate changes are...

Practicing Dying Dr. Neal Goldberg was supervising a troupe of medical clowns on “clowns on rounds” in an assisted living facility in New York when he saw a team of doctors leave a patient’s room...

I understand that your book The Gilded Cage: Queen Esther’s Untold Story is a historical novel. While I based most of the information on mefarshim, midrashim and chasidus, it’s written in the form of a...

My medical saga began when I was 13 or 14 years old, when I started to suffer from sporadic pains in my stomach. My parents took me to our family doctor, who dismissed them...

The State of Chelm. That’s the feeling among those who have been working day and night over the last few weeks to help Israeli citizens get home while the skies are kept closed by...