Jack Abraham, the “Ruby Baron” of New York, has had an interesting life, both before and after his founding of Precious Gem Resources 45 years ago. He hails from the kehillah of Afghanistan, which...

It was 1972 and I was studying in Yeshivas Kol Torah in Bayit Vegan when I received a summons from the American Embassy. When I got to the “Yimka” building (the YMCA where the...

To the great chagrin of the frum community, it has recently been discovered that many of the sifrei Torah coming to America from Eretz Yisrael have serious pesulim. No matter how much one has...

“Wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump! Election interference?” —Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a supporter of Trump, discussing the fact that for some time, Google’s autocomplete feature wouldn’t suggest Trump’s name when...

One of the most enjoyable forms of feedback I get from readers is when people tell me that they learned something valuable from this column that they applied to their business, even when the...

The appearance within days of two very different articles got some of my brain cells firing. One was about a rare disease and the other about the Harris presidential campaign’s record-breaking $200-million haul in the...

The driver of the taxi that brought me here told me that Chevron is the best yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael, on a level that is even higher than Brisk or Ponevezh. Israeli taxi drivers...

Eliyahu Yossian was born in the Iranian city of Isfahan in 1980. After completing 12 years of education in Muslim schools, he went on to study civil engineering at the University of Kashan. In...

One of the things I enjoy most about writing the “Lunchbreak” column is when my conversation with an entrepreneur ends up being entirely different from how I imagined it would be. Yanky Rottenberg founded...

The balance of good and evil in the world was favorably altered a bit last week, as the scales’ darker pan was lightened by the demise of Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in...