Shepherd’s Pie

Shepherd’s pie is a classic English pie featuring cooked ground meat and creamy mashed potatoes. It’s a wonderful, easy dish that disappears quickly, so consider doubling the recipe. If serving on Shabbos, this warms...

Heavenly Broccoli–Sweet Potato Quiche

This is a delicious quiche that can serve as a side dish for a fleishig meal in its pareve version, or as a deluxe dairy mishloach manos! Prepare it up to a month in...

Hope Springs Eternal // Bibi enters as officials depart

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met with President Trump for the fifth time in the past year and became just the second world leader to visit the Trump White House more than once....

The In-Laws Are Coming

Ten months after I got married, I came in from Lakewood to Brooklyn to get together with my mother for lunch and tell her that I was getting a divorce. She wasn’t exactly surprised at...

Revisiting Chok Hagiyus // MK Yisrael Eichler on israel’s political turmoil

Q: It seems that we always have the opportunity to speak around this time of the year—either before or after Purim. A: You’re catching me at a very good time because I was just speaking...

American Jewish Leaders Go to Israel // Am Echad Mission educates the Knesset

The recent Am Echad two-day mission to Eretz Yisrael that took place in Jerusalem on February 26-27 was coordinated by Agudath Israel of America. It consisted of a broad coalition of rabbinic and Jewish...

A Polite Civil War // Iran will do what’s in its best interest, despite...

There was a funny story recently about an Iranian military officer who claimed to have caught lizards that were trained to spy on Iran’s nuclear projects. The officer claimed that Western spies had used...

Sunset

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of the great gaon and tzaddik Rav Shmuel Auerbach, zt”l, the late rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Maalos HaTorah. Four years ago, in the beginning...

Women To Know: Ruth Pardes

When Ruth Fainol turned 15, her family and friends celebrated her quinceañera, the Latin American coming of age party, at her grandparents’ opulent mansion in the Venezuelan countryside. If you had told her then...

Undercover with Extremists // Israeli reporter Zvi Yehezkeli posed as an Islamist. Now he’s...

Paris is a city comprised of neighborhoods, known as arrondissements, which are numbered in an unusual spiral pattern beginning in the historic center of the city. The famed Jewish quarter, the Marais, is located in...