On my way to the supermarket, I was accosted by a friend who practically seethed with righteous indignation. “I was going out of my mind when I read that story with the daughter and the...

Recently, Turx was invited to join a group of American journalists in covering Iraq's first nationwide elections since the eradication of ISIS from its territory. The journalists had equipment, a security detail, an itinerary and...

My neighbor Fraidy knocked on my door about an hour before she was about to leave to Israel for Sukkos. She looked like she was going to an event, not embarking on a transatlantic...

One of the downsides of being in the public eye is that far more attention is paid to one’s gaffes and controversies than to one’s accomplishments. Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S., who is currently serving...

During the three days I spent in Afghanistan in early September, I had the opportunity to spend quality time with the troubled country’s last Jew, Zabloun Simintov, as I described in my article in...

“I hate to break it to you, but your husband’s an alcoholic.” The patient had been rushed to the local hospital in a state of severe intoxication, and the doctor’s words were startling. The...

On the surface, this is a story about two intertwined criminal cases, one involving a Russian national and the other an Israeli-American. But the reality is more complicated, and the situation is causing an...

Lawn ’N Order:  A Run-of-the-Mill Rumor Mill The date was 7/12/2017. A day, which as it would turn out, would not go on to live in infamy. On this particular morning, President Trump and I...

What happens when you put children and elderly people together under one roof? The tale is told of an old man—irascible, unlovable—who died alone in his room in a nursing home. Later, the nurses, who...

It seemed impossible, but this week it finally happened. For the first time in a decade, a politician other than Bibi Netanyahu was given the chance to form a government coalition. Benny Gantz, who...