I love a big, rich cheesecake as much as anyone, but sometimes you need something a little lighter. This cheesecake tart is perfect: a simple graham cracker crust is upgraded with browned butter, the...

Would an Israeli government be formed? Could Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convince Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman to join a coalition and give up his demands for a chareidi draft? Those were the questions that...

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, US operatives took into custody John Walker Lindh, an American citizen who had fought side-by-side with the enemies of his own country. Convicted of assisting...

I was in high spirits as I followed my husband into the upscale restaurant. It was his birthday, and we were planning on celebrating it in style. “What should we order?” he asked as we...

Michael Freilich is the first frum Jew to be voted into the Belgium Parliament. He is a member of the N-VA, or New Flemish Alliance. We spoke to him about why he ran and...

A couple of weeks before my son’s wedding my husband told me that he was feeling a bit numb. “Numb?” I asked in surprise. “What do you mean?” “The soles of my feet and the palms...

Shimon Cohen is the director of Shechitah UK, a community-wide organization that was established in 2009 to coordinate communication with the European Union on all aspects of shechitah. It unites under a single umbrella...

As the only girl in the family, I was delighted that my father called me his “maideleh.” My father, a Holocaust survivor, was a Poilisher Yid who never really mastered the English language. He...

The Middle East is full of surprises, some pleasant and some not so pleasant. Things here can change in an instant, and the eyes of the world are always watching as events unfold. It is...

Daniella Feldman tells me the story of summer 2018: “You can’t go to work as a bookkeeper this fall! Klal Yisrael needs you as a shadchan!” I told my good friend Rochie. We were sitting...