The multitudes of teenagers thronging the leafy college campus on the first day of the Fall 1981 semester exhibited all the classic signs of youthful exuberance: In the air, frisbees spun, balls were tossed,...

I remember running up the steep incline of my grandmother’s driveway on Friday afternoons, pulling open the front door and inhaling the sweet scent of peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. The smell guided me...

“We’re going into the waiting room now. Leave your phone in the car,” I was instructed. “In fact, leave everything in the car but your ID, and some money, if you want to give...

It has been said that all human encounters ultimately lead to a relationship with the Divine. But when meeting exceptionally pious people, G-d’s presence is palpable almost from the very first moment. My meeting...

“My name is Linda Abdel El Aziz Menuhin. I have coupled my father’s name to mine to keep his memory alive. It takes the place of a visit to a grave I’ll never know....

“Yisrael was adorned with three crowns: kesser Torah (the crown of Torah), kesser kehunah (the crown of priesthood), and kesser malchus (the crown of royalty). Kesser kehunah was given to Aharon, as it states...

Rebbetzin Paler’s dining room in her Boro Park home bears evidence to a life surrounded by greatness. On the wall is an elegantly framed portrait of her husband, the renowned rosh yeshivah of Mekor Chaim, Rav Binyomin...

Many people spend large chunks of their lives trying to figure out what it is that they’re best suited for. For Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the only daughter of former Arkansas governor and twice-presidential contender...

For the majority of his adult life, Matt Brooks has been involved in a leadership role within the Republican Jewish Coalition, an organization that seeks to enhance ties between the Jewish community and the...

In former times, wealthy people who had large houses also had many servants who did their bidding, while poor people who could not afford servants lived in small homes with one or two rooms. Understandably,...