“Good morning,” I said as I stuck my head into my friend’s cubicle on the way to my desk. “Brrr... it sure is cold out there.” “Good morning to you too,” Suri said with a...

How was Yom Tov?” my neighbor called out as our carts passed in the kosher market. She was obviously hoping for the usual shopping-aisle reply—“Very nice, and how was yours?”—which, according to tradition, requires...

Garnish the top layer of cream with mini meringues. For the Chocolate-Orange Mousse 2 cups coconut milk or soy milk ¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice 2 tablespoons orange zest contents of 1 vanilla bean 4 egg yolks ¼ cup sugar 3...

Getting to meet Efrat Libfroind is a delicious opportunity. Hailed as “The High Priestess of Kosher Cuisine” by Haaretz, the renowned pastry chef is the author of six cookbooks, the founder and editor-in-chief of...

The most shocking phone call in my life came at the most ordinary moment. I was sitting down at the dinner table with my husband, my fork moving with my hands as we talked...

In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded close to 500; and more recently in Texas, where a gunman killed 26 people in a church,...

One afternoon I use some free time to closely examine my room. I inspect the walls, behind the closets, inside the lamp and under the dresser. I want to see where exactly the microphones...

The day after last week’s terror attack in Manhattan, the streets nearby were still a mix of chaos and eerie silence. Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old Uzbek national living in New Jersey, drove a rented truck...

“I was born into a very good family in Bnei Brak,” the 17-year-old girl tells me on the phone in a rapid, slangy Hebrew that only an Israeli teenager speaks. “My family was really...

Sari Roth isn’t your typical entrepreneur. At least she wasn’t a few years ago, when she first started building a company now known as Bontact. Back then, the chareidi native of Bnai Brak and...