When the First Lebanon War broke out in 1982, I was a soldier, performing my two year and eight months compulsory service. I was the only child of Holocaust survivors, who were the sole...

It took a stranger to teach me how to feel the pain of the Temple’s destruction. My daughter Jennifer joined the Peace Corps soon after graduating from college. The Peace Corps application process was an interesting...

Many of the stories my esteemed guest shares with me are not for the faint of heart. “One of the things Misakim takes care of,” Yanky Meyer, its benevolent founder, tells me, “is burying amputated...

In 1889, a Russian Jew recorded his experience as he stood before the Western Wall for the first time. “I don’t remember how my shoes left my feet, how I fell full length to the...

Do you know the name and significance of every single part of your body? Neither do I, and neither do many medical professionals. It all started on a Wednesday, the week after Pesach, the longed-for...

After a few days of working in the oncology unit as a nurse I was thrown out. ‘You still haven’t worked through your mother’s death,’ I was told. ‘That’s why you’re having trouble helping...

In northeastern Paris is the small, quiet neighborhood of Belleville, adjacent to the city’s bustling 11th arrondissement, not too far from the old Jewish center of the city known as the Pletzl. Sarah Halimi,...

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...

I love pastas with red sauce, but how many times can I make the same penne à la vodka? I wanted to create a pasta that doesn’t entail a creamy sauce, but stands up...

New Release: Another Powerful Story with an Inspirational message by Rabbi Yoel Gold