A Conversation About Major Depression with Senator John Fetterman

“If I Had Taken Myself Out Two Years Ago, I Shudder to Think What My Children’s Lives Might Look Like” John Karl Fetterman (born August 15, 1969) is the senior United States senator from Pennsylvania....

A conversation with Associate Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center Dr. Daniel...

Dovid has been searching for a job for 20 months. With four years of experience in the tech industry, he once felt secure in his career but something has changed. Is it the rise...

Bookstore Brouhaha // Reason eludes the intelligentsia 

“Reductio ad absurdum” is the Latin phrase for establishing a claim by arguing that the counterclaim would lead to an absurdity. It is an entirely valid way of proving a point. It is why, for...

The Implications of Trump’s Gaza Initiative

A conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi Born and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Yossi is an Israeli-based best-selling author, and a leading thinker and commentator on Jewish and Israeli affairs. I spoke to him this...

Is There a Jobs Problem? // According to experts, finding employment has become harder

Dovid has been searching for a job for 20 months. With four years of experience in the tech industry, he once felt secure in his career but something has changed. Is it the rise...

Elon Musk Tears Down USAID // What is gained and what is lost by...

“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. USAID is a criminal organization.” —How Tesla CEO and head of DOGE Elon Musk described his actions to shut down the United States Agency for...

Both Sides Now // Antipathy masquerades as impartiality 

“Like Holocaust survivors.” That was Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar’s description of the appearance of Eli Sharabi, 52; Or Levy, 34; and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, the three hostages released this past Shabbos by Hamas...

Understanding the American Airlines Black Hawk Helicopter Collision

A conversation with aviation safety expert Dr. Daniel Bubb Last Wednesday night, a regional commercial plane and a military Black Hawk helicopter collided over the Potomac River near Washington, DC, sending both aircraft into the...

Communicating the Inexpressible // Remembering the incomparable chazzan Benzion Miller z“l

If I should ever die, G-d forbid,” wrote one famous writer, “let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of G-d was music.’” I’m not so sure that this...

Judd Rosenblatt // Agency Enterprise Studio

I’m often asked where I find the people to feature in the Lunchbreak column, and the truth is that most come by way of recommendation. A reader told me I would appreciate speaking to...