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...

It’s sort of what would happen in an evacuation before a hurricane,” Howard Duvall, a councilman in Columbia, South Carolina, told a reporter from the website CityLab. Duvall was referring not to a natural disaster...

The Torah world was shocked and saddened by the passing of Rav Aaron Mordechai Brafman, the menahel of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway/Derech Ayson, last Friday. Thousands of talmidim around the world, as well as...

The first time I experienced it, I wasn’t even a bona fide mother yet. I was talking to my own mother on my cell phone while searching my apartment frantically for my cell phone....

What do jalepeño peppers and herring have in common? Until last week, I couldn’t think of a thing. Herring is traditionally thought of as a Jewish food. There is nothing intrinsically Jewish about herring, as...

When you think dairy and fried, you think mozzarella sticks. Want to skip the breading process? Eggroll wrappers give you all the crispiness without the mess. 1 (8-ounce) brick mozzarella cheese or 12 mozzarella string...

Most kids love pasta dishes, and most adults enjoy a fish main course, but I wanted to create a main dish that’s both adult and kid-friendly. I decided on tuna burgers and started to...