‘‘There’s nothing wrong with your child.” That must have been the umpteenth time I’d heard that about my baby, who had writhed in my arms and screamed in agony all night. Dr. Baum* looked me straight...

The allegedly wise people who dwell high above Earth in the airy clouds of Langley or under the Foggy Bottom of Washington, DC, have convinced themselves that the Hong Kong protests—which have been going...

In the spirit of the month of Elul, this week one of the most protracted political quarrels among the chareidim came to an end. On one end was Shas Chairman Rabbi Aryeh Deri, and...

For 29 years, Daniel Michael worked in sales, until his company abruptly closed two years ago. Since then, he has scrambled between consulting and executive positions, never really financially stable. Life in Israel is...

You know those agonizing decisions that cause you to break out in a sweat and reach out to everyone on your contact list to help you make up your mind? The decision is so...

For seasoned Floridians, nothing quite says “fall is here” like the threat of a hurricane. Each year, dozens of giant, swirling storms form off the coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Mexico, or off...

The mitzvah of tefillin is just one of those things that if you aren’t religious or educated about Yiddishkeit, it makes almost no sense. What are those things, and why in the world would...

The recent spate of Israeli court decisions against gender-segregated and men-only concerts has taken the international Orthodox Jewish community by surprise—but it shouldn’t. On January 15 of this year, Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments...

Going outside your front door looking visibly Jewish in New York City is something that many of us have taken for granted for years. But that’s not true anymore, after a string of violent...

After the Holocaust, Esther Bleier, a young mother of two children, was the only surviving child of the legendary Rav Yonasan Steif, whose 61st yahrtzeit will be marked next week on 9 Elul. Her...