man was wearing a cap with NYPD markings on it. He had a police shield, mace and handcuffs, he said he was a police officer, and he was trying to enter the Young Israel...

“The Kotel Hamaaravi is the last remnant of our Beit Hamikdash,” Rav Shlomo Moshe Amar, the Sephardic chief rabbi of Yerushalayim tells me during a recent visit to his home. “It is the place...

I confess: Although I aim to be broadminded and egalitarian, in many situations I ultimately find myself to be unequivocally parochial and ethnocentric, no universalist by any means, despite my best aspirations. Translated into...

It's a bit of a daunting undertaking to try to describe a Yemenite shofar, or any shofar for that matter. But the best description I’ve ever seen was undoubtedly an ad that had been...

“Ican’t really pray,” an old friend wrote to me this week in an email. “My efforts to forgive and ask forgiveness, such as they are, have been less than heartfelt. This has not been...

Mrs. Beilinson, the first-grade teacher, was concerned. “Alex is doing a lot of spacing out during class,” she told his mother on the phone. “It seems like he’s in another world much of the time—staring...

Rebbetzin Bashy Bleich is a down-to-earth, easygoing woman who grew up in Monsey, New York. At the behest of the Stoliner Rebbe, she and her husband and young son moved to the city of...

Some people enjoy a sweet side dish, and others, like myself, think that these totally belong in the dessert course. Mini apple crumb pies would be very time-consuming. These squares taste exactly the same,...

The inhabitants of the island of Antigua watched nervously as Hurricane Irma approached. The massive storm came and passed, and the prime minister announced that the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda had basically...

Only once before did such an event occur: One after the other, the gedolim of Eretz Yisrael came to the Beis Talmud Torah Y’chaveh Da’as in Yerushalayim. In a rare show of unity, rabbanim...