Devastation In Houston // As The Waters Recede, A Large American City Faces A...
Spread across hundreds of miles in Texas, Lousiana and several other states, Hurricane Harvey came, wandered for a while, and then left, leaving behind it a massive area of destruction that rivals the most...
Letting Go // My Daughter Was Ready To Take The Leap. But Was I?
They say love is letting go. What “they” don’t say is that letting go is like snatching up your heart and ripping it in two. I found that out the hard way, the day...
A Place Where the birds No Longer Sing // A visit to the ruins...
The sky is clear and blue, the forest is a vibrant green, and the sun is shining through the leaves of the maple and pine trees. We are in Ukraine, at the edge of...
Rebbetzin Esther Yenta Finkel, A”H // The Matriach of Mir
It was an ostensibly simple question—“Whose daughter are you?”—but it served to launch the teenaged Esther Yenta Greinerman on a lifelong mission.
As Rav Binyamin Carlebach, Rebbetzin Esther Yenta Finkel’s son-in-law related at her levayah...
A Catastrophe in South Texas // Houston’s Jewish Community Still In Shock
August 28, 2017—The greater Houston Jewish community is still reeling from the most devastating floods in Texas history. As of this issue’s printing, Hurricane Harvey has slowed from a category four huricane to a...
Chicken Controversy Continues // New Proclamations About The Brakel Chicken
It would seem that after much discussion and deliberation focusing on facts and feathers, the outcome of the battle of the Brakel that has been brewing over the past few weeks in the world of halachah has more or less...
BDS Undercover
David Collier is a Jewish resident of England who has inflitrated the BDS movement in the UK and Scotland and has revealed the hard-core anti-Semitism that drives it. Stripping away all of the...
Old School, New School // Education Gets Schooled
Old School
“Poor you, Ima!” my daughter looks stricken as I adjust the straps on her brand new backpack. “When we all go back to school, you’ll be home all alone!”
“Yes,” I tell her. “It...
Backwards In Time
Abe Foxman, the former head of the ADL, confessed on CNN that he was shocked. He never thought he would live to see the day when Nazis would march again in America. It was...
The Third Partner
Parenting seems so straightforward, when you think about it logically. You put in the effort, the love, the time, the attention, and out of that emerges the product of all that hishtadlus. But we...





















