Most of the doctors we spoke to about our newborn Tzvi dismissed our concerns and said everything was fine. I would mention how little he was awake, and they would explain that it was...

This past Thursday the Israeli Supreme Court issue a short decision consisting of only three lines, which essentially postponed the repeal of the chok hagiyus (chareidi draft law) for another six months. Three years...

It’s no secret that Stephanie Grisham is the White House press secretary. What remains mostly unknown, however, is what her job actually entails, since she’s never held a press briefing, almost never grants interviews...

Mrs. Pashkus* shot me a worried look as I gently ushered her reluctant six-year-old daughter Blimie into my office, leaving her behind in the waiting room. “Take good care of her,” she managed to edge...

I was making my way home on the Jerusalem Light Rail after Birkat Kohanim at the Kotel when a middle-aged American woman in a tichel came over to me. “Have you ever heard of Marcie...

My story began exactly 20 years ago, in May of 2000. My first husband, Menachem*, was scheduled for routine surgery to repair a minor problem with his jaw that made it hard for him...

The first thing I discovered about my husband, among his many wonderful attributes, was his love for chess. “I bought us an amazing present,” my husband of all of two weeks gushed as he unveiled...

When I arrived at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, I was expecting it to be overcrowded; after all, India is the second most populous country in the world. But while it was very...

Back in the 1800s, the British called their geopolitical strategy to keep Russia out of Afghanistan the “Great Game.” Queen Victoria discovered from the body counts that the Russians were by far the better...

The ride to Tifrach, a small moshav in southern Israel, was quiet on that Friday afternoon three days before Rosh Hashanah. The two children in the back seat, lulled to sleep by the hum...