It was Erev Yom Kippur, and our daughter Mindy was home with us, for now. The last ten years had taken her on a tumultuous journey far from her family and roots. But she...

An American author and cultural critic once had this to say about the attribute of charisma: “Charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.”...

One Friday morning my two-year-old son Yehudah woke up sounding congested. He seemed to be a little lethargic and was running a low-grade fever, so I called the pediatrician and scheduled an appointment—just to...

Of all the people I’ve ever met, no story has ever touched me like that of Rabbi Yitzi and Dina Hurwitz. Rabbi Yitzi, who together with his wife founded Chabad of Temecula, California, is...

When I meet Leah Horowitz, I tell her something I’ve never said to an interviewee before. “Leah, I don’t envy you. I don’t know how you can do what you do, day after day.”...

Last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with Corey Lewandowski was the circus watched around the world. According to most commentators, it was an event that featured no winners and a whole lot of losers....

A quarter of a century ago, I was an anxious young mother of two little boys, the younger of which wasn’t gaining enough weight. At 13 weeks old, Yossi was wan and colicky, his...

“The facts, Ma’am, just the facts,” as fictional detectives used to say. So let’s look at the evidence. 1. President Rouhani of Iran was in Turkey meeting with Putin and Erdogan. All three were in favor...

The elections have ended in what seems to be another stalemate. Here is a five-point summary of what happened: 1. Is this the endof an era? After ten years and five elections, Binyamin Netanyahu’s time as...

There’s a Jewish proverb that goes something like this: Whatever hasn’t happened in 1,000 years might happen in the next moment. Likewise, whenever I knock on the door of a gadol a similar thought...