They say that good fences make good neighbors. If that’s the case, I definitely would have won the Worst Neighbor Award the summer I spent at Harmony Hills. Not only was there no fence...

Harry Ashkenazi was a grandfather many times over when he was diagnosed with cancer. His first instinct was to call his rabbi. “You’ll be okay, Harry,” Rabbi Ozeiry told him. “You know Raphael Cohen*?” Harry...

I was making milkshakes for my kids one day and decided to get a little creative, and our new combination was a winner. If there are any peanut allergies in your family, leave the...

Pizza Dough: 1 tablespoon dry yeast 1 tablespoon sugar 13/4 cups warm water 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 cups bread flour 1 teaspoon salt Cornmeal, for sprinklingTopping: 4 plum tomatoes, thinly sliced 1 recipe Garlic Marinara Sauce (see opposite page) 11/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese ½ cup...

When Joselin Linder was in her 20s her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered a deadly blockage in her liver. Struggling to find an explanation for her unusual condition,...

School is out, vacation is in. For most children this is reason to celebrate, but not all of them are celebrating for the same reason. Some are excited because summer means a reprieve from...

The last time Marc Haskell put on tefillin was at his bar mitzvah. That was over 40 years ago, in another lifetime. Last Monday evening, 15 Av, Marc, whose Hebrew name is Moshe, stood on...

“We need you to bring something into Eretz Yisrael for us.” Aryeh was a student in Jerusalem who had gone to visit relatives in Antwerp, Belgium. Shortly before his return flight to Israel, one of...

For as long as he could remember, Justyn Levin had been a tennis player—and a good one, too. He had been competing internationally since he was a teenager, even winning a bronze medal for...

We were sitting in my mother-in-law’s spacious apartment on Terlistraat, in the heart of the Jewish kehillah of Antwerp, on a cozy Friday night. My husband, Yanky, and I had flown in from New...