It’s All In The Mind // Life Does Not Have To Be Perfect
I have heard it said that the mind has its own form of health and sickness, just as the body does.
What I went through over a period of two years makes me extremely qualified...
Russian Spies…Everywhere // From Lenin to Stalin to Putin…America Has Been Compromised
What is the largest number of spies that Russia has ever had inside the United States of America? Ten? A hundred? A thousand? Newly declassified Russian archives suggest that we never even came close...
Trump’s Envoy // One-on-one with Ambassador David Friedman
The conflict was palpable. During much of the Obama administration, the White House and the Israeli government, though often cordial in public pronouncements, were clearly at loggerheads. At times, even the official statements were...
If Not Now, Wen? // After A Popular Conditioner Caused Her Daughter’s Hair To...
Miriam Lawrence had never heard of Wen Hair Care products when her mother gave her a bottle of its Sweet Almond Mint Cleansing Conditioner in 2014. Having been swayed by the infomercial touting the...
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...
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Reshuffling the Deck // Parties make decisions as elections draw...
This past Thursday night, about a month and a half before the election, the political parties standing for election submitted their lists of candidates...
