Get up and go over to the nearest water tap in your house. Yes, you, reading this, right now. Turn the tap on. Do you feel a sensation of dread? If you don’t, that’s good. For...

“Where are we going, Ta?” Moishy asked me as he climbed into the front seat of my rental Corolla, clutching a bag of potato chips. We’d had a beautiful Shabbos, the perfect weekend every...

It was a high-stakes auction. Participants weren’t putting up money for their bids. Instead, they were offering blatt Gemara. And while that auction shocked those in attendance, the follow-up, which came this year, astounded...

My cellphone rang just as I was dozing off. Groggily, I pressed the talk button. “Hello,” I croaked, slightly disoriented. “Hi, Nechama. It’s Gitty Klein,” my neighbor said cheerily. “Mazel tov! I’m so happy for you!” “Thanks.” “You...

As I prepare for my son’s upsherin, his first major milestone, I am totally predictable. As an emotional, intense and rather imaginative person, I am not surprised at the maelstrom of feelings that assault...

If there is one Hebrew word a foreigner quickly picks up in Israel it’s “pekak.” That is inevitable, since wherever you wish to go you will encounter pekakim, as traffic jams are called in...

It was an ambitious, grandiose plan bordering on madness, and it could have changed the face of the Middle East. It was a plan that could only arise amid the crazy reality that was Lebanon...

For an adult, anxiety can be hard to deal with. But what do you do when your child is experiencing it? Here are tools and tips for helping them navigate their anxiousness, techniques that...

The first thing that strikes you about Naomi’s house is the garden. It’s not one of those sculpted, landscaped magazine gardens. This garden features an overturned…well, bookcase, recycled and reincarnated as a segmented vegetable...