Stars in my Eyes // How Can I Marry Someone I Am Not...

We’re strolling side by side, the boy I’m dating and I, when he asks The Question. Not that I didn’t expect it—both of us knew that a l'chaim was in the process of being...

Lunchbreak: Schneur Landa, fello

Name: Schneur Landa Age: 34 Company: Fello Industry: Event Tech Services and iPad Rentals Headquarters: Butler, New Jersey Established: 2011 Employees: 26 While attending a corporate event, community fair, or checking into a seminar...

The Golden Shidduch // A ‘‘nobody’’ finally finds her voice

My parents’ small sefarim store is silent and musty, and the lights are dim. I am dusting the shelves, taking out the books, giving a little swoop with the duster and returning them to...

Last-Minute Madness // Playing Chicken in the Knesset

The place: The first floor of the Knesset. The time: 10:15 p.m. In just a few minutes, the chairman of the Election Committee, Supreme Court Justice Neal Hendel, will be officially ending the session...

Anomalies // The real reason behind the Iranian missile attack on Ukrainian ...

In the intelligence community, an “anomaly” is something out of the ordinary pattern that needs a further look. In the case of the recent crash of the Ukrainian commercial flight in Iran, there are...

The Making of a Dirshu Yid

From the moment I entered the Heythrop Park Resort Hotel in Oxfordshire, England, on Friday afternoon, I immediately sensed that this Shabbos was going to be more exalted than anything I had ever experienced. I...

When a wife and mother is absent

This is my first visit to the Jersey City home of Moshe Duvid Ferencz, whose wife was gunned down in cold blood while tending his store only because she was Jewish. There is an...

To Obey or Not? A young mother is tempted to disregard the expert parenting...

There are so many things I forgot. I forgot how long it takes for the umbilical cord to fall off, for instance, and how tiny infant fingernails can feel like a razorblade when they rake...

The Lost Ring

Three years ago, Reuven and Gitty Epstein celebrated their tenth anniversary. As a gift, Reuven bought his wife an expensive diamond ring, and she wore it proudly every day for the next few years—until...

A Tribute: With Modesty and Majesty // Remembering Rav Pesach Eliyahu Falk, zt”l

The Torah world was shocked and thrown into mourning this week by the passing of Rav Pesach Eliyahu Falk, rav and posek in Gateshead, United Kingdom. For decades, Rav Falk answered sh’eilos, gave chizzuk, and...