Yuri Shvets is a former KGB agent who served as an undercover operative in Washington, DC, during the 1980s. He left the KGB and moved permanently to the US in 1993. Since then, he...

GBC Facility Services is a Toronto-based company founded by Izzy Waknin; it provides daily and weekly cleaning services for commercial clients. In its first four years of operation, Izzy took GBC from its humble...

How could free energy change the world? Among all the forms of energy production, nuclear power is the one that generates the most fear per kilowatt. While nuclear reactors have lit up cities around the...

“I’m a good listener” If someone tells me she’s a good listener, I wonder why she’s telling me. After all, if she’s really a good listener, why announce it? Won’t I soon find out? Actually, the...

Major mirth greeted Stanford University’s Information Technology department’s list of words and terms to be shunned by the university’s publications and website.  Amplifying the amusement were some of the suggested replacements for the entries that...

Serves 3-4   Sauce: ¼ cup fish-free Worcestershire sauce 1 cup barbecue sauce 1 (12-oz.) bottle beer 2 tablespoons honey Meatballs: 1½ lbs. ground beef ¼ cup brown sugar ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper 1 egg yolk ½ cup panko breadcrumbs  or plain...

Serves 4-6   2 lb. pepper steak strips 1 (16-oz.) bag frozen mixed pepper strips (or 1 red pepper and 1 green pepper, cut into strips) 1 (15-oz.) can baby corn, cut in medium chunks 2 cups frozen broccoli florets 1½...

Serves 6   5 cans tuna in water, drained 2 tablespoons avocado-oil mayonnaise (optional) 1 tablespoon mustard (I like spicy brown or Dijon) 1 tablespoon pickle juice, from a jar of pickles 2 hard-boiled egg whites, finely diced 1 small red onion, finely...

On a bright Sunday morning, Shiffy Lichtenstein joined a circle of women sitting with journals on their laps. Shiffy, a licensed social worker, opened the support session with a question prompt: “What is freedom?” The...

The act of purchasing mezuzos or tefillin (“sta”m”) can sometimes seem time consuming and confusing. However, as a recent controversy demonstrates, it is an act strewn with landmines. Unlike our careful purchase of food—which comes...