The Secret Plansto Sabotage Iran // Did The New York Times go too far...

There was a bit of an uproar when The New York Times published two articles on the same day concerning American covert involvement with the sabotage of Iranian missile production. If true, the Times...

A Cry for Help // The doctors kept insisting that it was “only...

Have you ever had to call poison control? I have. It happened on a lovely day in June, just after I’d bought the pharmacy out of every naturopathic colic remedy that people had raved...

On the Spot and Off the Record // President Trump invites Ami and a...

For four minutes the email sat in my inbox before I saw it. It was an urgent request from a White House official that I present myself at the designated rendezvous point where the...

Remembering The Liezher Rav, zt”l // Rav Yehoshua Zev Meisels of London

The London community and the Jewish world at large were deeply saddened by the passing this Shabbos of Rav Yehoshua Zev Meisels, one of the original rabbanim of the postwar Stamford Hill community and...

Rabbis in Parliament // A group of senior rabbanim and askanim in England went...

Adelegation of senior and leading rabbanim, amongst them the renowned rosh yeshivah Rav Elyakim Schlesinger, as well as Rav Shalom Friedman and Rav Dovid Halpern, headed to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster following...

Keeping Secrets // Telling my family had too many drawbacks

The first person I called to share the good news after I found out I was expecting was, of course, my mother. “But don’t tell anyone yet,” I warned. “Shlomo and I are still keeping...

Israeli Feminists Vs. Chareidim // On January 15, Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments on...

The American philosopher and writer Michael Levin hit the proverbial nail on the head with his apt description of feminism. “Although feminism speaks the language of liberation, self-fulfillment, options and the removal of barriers,”...

My Daughter Refused to Sit! // No one could explain her unusual behavior

When my 17-month-old daughter refused to sit down one day after I begged her numerous times, I took a deep breath and mentally prepared myself for the terrible twos that lay ahead. “Sit down!” I...

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Keeps It Up // Ilhan Omar and the “Benjamins”

If you’re a sitting US legislator, and you’ve been accused of trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes and you’ve apologized publicly for doing so, we might expect that you wouldn’t go right back to using such...

Light in London // A tale of two wheelchair encounters

It happened during Reb Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s recent visit to London, in the confines of a small office in a girls’ school where he had come to speak. No one but the three people...