Vadimir Putin must feel sorry for himself. This was supposed to be his year of triumphs: a series of foreign policy successes, growth in the economy and an election to change the Russian constitution...

Rav Dovid Levy, a native of Yerushalayim and founder of Pele Yoetz, a not-for-profit organization that provides the tools for people to cope with emotional and childrearing challenges, is one of the foremost contemporary...

My husband, Mendel, was receiving outpatient treatment for cancer in a prestigious Florida hospital. We were itching to get back to Europe for our granddaughter’s wedding, which would take place ten days before Pesach....

Hello. My name is Chana Zinger. I am phoning you because I am looking for Sara Peri of Givatayim. You don’t know me. I’m a historian of the Holocaust, and I work with Ganzach...

I’ve heard many complaints from my pastry school students that when they tried making a yeast-based cake, the dough always overpowered the filling. This cake has the perfect balance of a creamy, cheesy filling...

‘Painful,’ ‘depressing,’ ‘I can’t believe my eyes.’ These are some of the things that residents of Meron keep repeating when they see Meron completely empty just a week before the yahrtzeit of the Rashbi...

Doctor, I feel like my skin is on fire, my flesh is being eaten, and I have thousands of knives beneath the surface jabbing at my skin.” The doctor gave me a knowing look....

A tweet from New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, in the aftermath of the levayah of Rav Chaim Mertz, the Tola’as Yaakov Rebbe, which took place last Tuesday, caused a hailstorm of criticism to...

Across the US, one type of facility has been a horrifying locus for coronavirus deaths: the nursing home. The Associated Press reported this week that there have been more than 20,000 coronavirus deaths in...

A cup of hot chocolate and a good book. The thought alone was enough to keep Rochie Kaplan* going that cold, rainy Tuesday as she hurried home from work. The children in her kindergarten class had...