It's the sound that greets me first, the gentle murmur of roughly a dozen women at least 20 years my senior coming from somewhere within the depths of the house. A few steps later...

When my mother passed away, it wasn’t only her children and grandchildren who felt the void. The entire community mourned her petirah. My mother, a”h, was a one-woman chesed dynamo. She spent her days raising...

When I was growing up there was a joke going around, attributed to the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l, that the driving distance between Williamsburg and Boro Park was 18 minutes—the exact time it takes for...

When I was 18 I was drafted into the IDF, and a year later I became one of the original members of the elite undercover unit known as Yamas (Yechidat Mistaarvim). The unit is...

For the past four years Rabbi Menachem Mallinger has been living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by rugged mountains and steep valleys. He spends his days helping those whom society has given up...

Parkinson’s is a very isolating disease. Your world grows smaller and slower, while around you, the people you know and love are rushing, accomplishing, doing, at what seems like a dizzying pace. It’s hard...

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We all know the stories from the early 1900s, when people lost their jobs week after week because they refused to desecrate Shabbos. One might imagine that this is no longer an issue in...

Interacting with Miriam Ballin pulls you into a fast-paced experience. You cannot sit across from this embodiment of multitasking without feeling a quickening of your pulse, thanks to the incessant beeping of multiple phones...