I first crossed paths with Sarkawt Shamsulddin during his three-year stint as a foreign member of the White House press corps, for the Kurdish channel NRT-TV. For three years that spanned the end of...

Since my mother passed away ten years ago, I’m the only person my father has left. I tell this to myself each time I make the difficult 6½-hour round trip to the federal penitentiary where...

When it comes to propaganda, according to the Rand Corporation, the worst and first offender is the “Firehose of Falsehood” blasting out of Russia. Studies have shown that the Russians do not care about...

We will start with a little history. Between the years 1347 and 1352, an epidemic that caused a person’s lymph nodes to become inflamed wrought havoc across the European continent. The deadly plague, which...

I felt like I had reached the end of my tether; I didn’t have a single ounce of physical or emotional energy to keep going. It had been a long weekend. Shabbos had been...

If you aren’t going to a bonfire this Lag BaOmer, chances are you’re going to a wedding. In the spirit of this day, we bring you some weird and wonderful fiascos and unexpected mishaps...

The feeling is electric in the Williamsburg Hotel on Tuesday as I join 400 women who have gathered for the fifth annual Jewish Woman Entrepreneur Conference. “We all have the same struggles,” says Chagit Leviev,...

Across the Jewish world, if a Yid enters a shul he has never been in before, he usually finds himself greeted warmly by people he’s never met. Being welcomed to a community is something...

Shimona Tzukernik is the creator of The Method, a coaching program for individuals and corporations that is based on Kabbalah. I first met Shimona many years ago when I attended the weekly classes she gave...

Jonny Daniels is used to uncovering remnants of Jewish life in Poland. As the executive director and founder of the organization From the Depths, which works to preserve such remnants, it’s what he does...