Ahuge asifah in Yerushalayim just a few days ago, held in the Tamir Hall of the Mirrer Yeshiva, brought together American yeshivah bachurim to hear strong messages about their upcoming return to America. Faced...

I had been living in Israel for eight and a half months and was now on my fourth job. I was already an experienced shoe fitter, babysitter assistant and medical biller. My new stint...

In 1981, having just completed his military service in the IDF, 21-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg, the child of Holocaust survivors, set off on his own to South America to explore the Amazon rainforest. As he...

Q: I wanted to talk to you about OCD, which I understand is your area of expertise. There’s a perception—and I don’t know if it’s right or wrong—that as Pesach approaches, people with OCD...

This is a wonderful, easy dessert comprised of three recipes, each of which can be made on its own. The chocolate mousse doubles as a dessert or as a topping or filling for Pesach...

Every Pesach in my mother’s house, we all chipped in with the cooking, each preparing the recipes we loved most. My sister Chana Rivka always made the apple cobbler (and still does). It’s a...

This recipe is easy to prepare but rich in flavor, and it presents beautifully. Thanks, Raquel, for another great one! You can also prepare this using a standing rib roast; use red wine instead of...

Only 70 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is again on the rise all over the world, in the US, in the Middle East, and particularly in Europe: hate preachers in the Christian and Muslim...

Twenty-five years ago, two eleventh-graders at Bais Yaakov of Toronto, Rivka Hadassah Magid and Sara Malka Mandel, had a dream. Rivka Hadassah, today Mrs. Rivka Kessler, still living in Toronto, recalls, “Our interest in the...

That is how veteran journalist Jere Van Dyk describes his capture, in Afghanistan in 2008, by the Taliban, in his recent book, The Trade: My Journey into the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping. He would be...