Tearful goodbye parties are a regular occurrence when you live in a young American neighborhood in Yerushalayim. So many people come and go (although on the bright side, there are plenty of welcoming N’shei...

Is the future of much of American Jewry to live in small villages sprinkled throughout Upstate Readers are always asking me questions about my sources. I have a question for you: Who do you...

At the stroke of midnight on May 2, 2011, four helicopters are crossing a range of mountains shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan, invading their sovereign territory in the pursuit of capturing a wanted man....

“My family and I live in a nice neighborhood, our kids go to a good school; they have friends. We know many people. Inevitably, the question arises: What do you do for a living?...

During my first phone conversation with Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, a little over six years ago, I found myself telling him that Rav Reuven Feinstein once mentioned that his father, Rav Moshe, zt”l, had...

Dear Nisson, I loved you. I loved you for who you were, for your humility and your piety; for what you did for me, for what you did for the Jewish world and, most particularly,...

I entered Yeshivas Shaarei Yosher in Boro Park, nervous with anticipation. I had heard from other talmidim that the Rosh Yeshivah didn’t look inside the Gemara when testing bachurim for the entrance exam. In...

When my son Yechiel went back to yeshivah after Pesach, I breathed a sigh of relief. Don’t get me wrong. I love my son; he’s a burst of sunshine and fun, and it’s wonderful...

Seated at the majestic Seder table surrounded by my children and grandchildren, my heart was full. All of the guests were gathered around the royal tish, harmoniously chanting the Haggadah with a heavenly purpose....

It was the dog days of summer, when the days are long and the floors are splattered with popsicle juice even though the kids have already gone back to school. “Yocheved invited me to go...