Eggplant, Tomato, and Pesto Stacks

½ cup YumTee chopped walnuts 2 cups fresh basil leaves 3 medium garlic cloves ½ cup plus ½ tablespoon olive oil, divided ½ cup grated Parmesan Salt Freshly ground pepper 1 large eggplant, sliced into ½-inch-thick rounds 1 teaspoon sea salt 2 large heirloom...

Collard Green Wraps with Sesame and Soy Quinoa Filling

“Don’t want the carbs of a wrap but still want to bite into something that’s like a sandwich? Collard wraps are the perfect refreshing summer dish. Stuff ’em with quinoa and crunchy fresh veggies...

Cherry Tomato Focaccia

You can use your favorite focaccia recipe and try a new, interesting topping. Or, make this version, which yields 2 focaccias, and make 2 different toppings (you can halve the topping, if doing so). Dough: 5...

My Beloved Stranger // As a child, I’d always had a dread of abandonment

I saw him yesterday. It was the first time in several months. The last time I’d bumped into him, four months ago—by chance, outside the supermarket—I’d stumbled my way through a conversation of sorts. “How...

Soon by You

There were 38 place settings and 38 chairs arranged in the Beyman dining room that Shabbos. Most of the guests had arrived before Shabbos and were schmoozing in either the living room or family...

Woman To Know: Risa Rotman

“Sometimes I need to give myself a pep talk,” Risa tells me towards the end of our conversation. “Aren’t you supposed to be the emunah lady?” she says, changing the inflection of her voice....

Bar Kochba’s Secret Tunnels // A revealing visit to the ruins of an...

few kilometers beyond the city of Beit Shemesh, the road wends its way among flowering green fields to the Valley of Elah. Here alongside the satellite dishes, as we enter the Adulam Forest, we...

Netanyahu Goes to Moscow // Eyewitness report from the Charedi reporter who went along

With all the hullabaloo ensuing from US President Donald Trump’s recent encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, the comparatively lesser turmoil surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit with Putin in Moscow...

The Burned Land // The sights and horrors of the kite and balloon fires...

Charred cacti, incinerated turtles and snails, black bones of animals that could not escape the fire, thousands of acres of decimated fields. This has been the reality for much of the Israeli countryside adjoining...

In the Shadow of Evil // The true story a Jewish boy who was...

The train rumbles noisily across the German Fatherland, and for one 14-year-old passenger there is little to do other than stare out the window. This boy, like thousands of other Jewish children, is leaving...