Even pastry chefs have a savory side. You can serve this tuna cutting-board style in large pieces, or as individual fillet portions. I also serve these appetizer-style by placing the tuna in little cups...

When you are looking for recipes for an easy and quick melaveh malkah buffet, soup and sandwiches are not usually on the menu. But after serving this combo in mini form last year at...

This year’s convention slogan was “Together We Will.” As I mentioned to Dayan Abraham last week, this seems to be like a kankan yashan hearkening back to one of the first Agudah slogans of...

Financial Quarantine In Part I, we discussed the Harpoon unit, a secret Israeli operation to bankrupt terrorists, and how it did not work very well because terrorist-backing entities quickly poured more money back into the...

"Ma, I don’t feel so good,” said Batya as she walked through the door, threw her backpack on the floor, shrugged out of her coat and stomped up the stairs to her bedroom. “Hey, pick...

Rarely does one come out publicly and admit that his signature achievement was not just a failure, but, in hindsight, a myth. However, when Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy advisor to President Reagan and treasury...

When Shmelke Diamond first telephoned my office and said that he would like me to meet his father, a New York State Supreme Court Justice in Nassau County, Long Island, I was uninterested. An...

I’m meeting someone I haven’t seen for a while. It’s obvious that he or she is undergoing chemotherapy treatment. It’s not only the lack of hair but also his pallor. Should I pretend that...

A cloud of gunpowder hovered over the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Exploding shells could be heard in from every direction. And yet, oddly enough, two middle-aged figures could be seen surreptitiously making their...

The adage “Got lemons? Make lemonade!” is an apt beginning to Rifka Lebowitz’s story. When she was 12 years old, her family moved from Scotland to Israel. “In the 1900s my great-grandparents were trying...