REKINDLED // The spark that returned them to Yiddishkeit

INTRODUCTION It was a cold autumn morning, and my windshield was glazed with a thin layer of frost. I started up the engine, blasted the defogger and hit the wipers, but nothing melted. I couldn’t...

FLAMBÉ // Flaming menorah shots

Yield: 8 shots   For each shot, you will need: 1 part coffee liqueur 1 part Irish cream 1 part Bacardi 151 rum (or regular rum or vodka) You will also need: 8 shot glasses   Pour coffee liqueur into a shot glass. Slowly...

Yossi Green Pays Tribute to the Songs of Reb Berish Vishever // ...

How did you become acquainted with the niggunim of Reb Berish Vishever? It all began with the Shalom Aleichem my father sang on Friday nights; I don’t know how old I was when I found...

Troubleshooting the Shidduch System // Veteran Lakewood shadchan Reb Tzadok Katz...

The sense of entitlement keeps showing up. I see bachurim taking their dates out for the third or fourth time to super-luxurious restaurants. The date ends up costing $500. Five hundred!” Reb Tzadok Katz, a...

Exclusive Lunch Break Fundraising Panel // with Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, Yoel Braver...

Giving tzedakah is part of our identity. I would guess that every Jew encounters the opportunity to give tzedakah on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s in the form of the pushka box in shul,...

Oy Vey! Baruch Hashem! // Times like these beget both responses

It is easy to get depressed these days. Celebrities with millions of fans (mindless many of whom may assume that the ability to rap rhymes or accurately aim a basketball evidences wisdom) spew the...

The View from Baku // A conversation with Rabbi Zamir Isayev

“I’m a Mountain Jew. According to our tradition, we came here directly from Bavel. After several later waves of immigration of Jews from Persia, we started to speak a language known as Juhuri.” The news...

Kellogg’s vs. Kravy // IP lawyer Andrew Bochner explains to Ami how he...

If you build a company and want it to stand out amid its competitors, to attract customers who have heard of it, you need a name that people will remember. And to keep other...

The “Twitter Files” on Hunter Biden // What did the revelations hyped by...

Since Elon Musk first started to talk about buying Twitter, he has suggested that if he bought it, he would reveal the inside workings of the social media company. Now he is making good...

The Unusual Journey of Hadassah Teitelbaum // A member of the Hilltop...

I was spending time with a friend when I realized that I had marked this article down as due on the 26th instead of the 16th, when it was actually due. I abruptly went...