Words cannot express the sadness and emptiness I felt when I heard the news of the passing of my dear friend Abe “Avrumi” Wolfson. Nonetheless, I wanted to write a few words about one...

A week after Purim, Shira Alexander felt mildly sick. “I was coughing and had difficulty breathing for around ten days,” she told me. An energetic 34-year-old resident of Gateshead in the UK, she quickly regained...

If there were a prize for the most audacious and successful prank of the year—maybe even of all time—Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny’s phone call should get it.  The vocal critic and political opponent...

This past Thursday morning, arguments erupted between passengers returning to Israel and Health Ministry officials stationed at Ben Gurion International Airport. “Shame on you! You should learn from Dubai how to treat people!” one...

Can it be that we parents may unknowingly be impeding our children’s abilities to form strong relationships later in life? This thought came to me after speaking to numerous parents and young adults themselves...

Don’t skip this soup! It’s divine! I teach it often, and to my students’ surprise, they love it! I know, these are ingredients that are new, and chickpea soup sounds strange, but it’s really,...

On a muggy evening in late September (fall offering no respite from the stifling heat of the previous months; airless and oppressive, the physical universe both mirrored and intensified our surreal sense of having...

On the outside, Netta Marrom looks like your average, gentle religious person whom some people might underestimate. That he is still living in the same Tel Aviv neighborhood in which he grew up certainly...

Every time she woke up with the swelling, I felt a niggling unease. Something told me we were on the wrong track. I just didn’t know how to get on the right one. Two years...

Because every family needs a dairy dinner night! This is a classic Italian eggplant Parmesan, much like lasagna but with slices of eggplant taking the place of pasta. With multiple layers of breaded and...