Stolen Childhood // The phenomenon of parentified children
There are children who never had a chance to experience a regular childhood. From a very young age, these children are forced into the...
Where has all the Butter gone? Butter is disappearing from Israeli supermarkets
It is our family tradition on Pesach to spread butter on matzos for breakfast. But this past year, the supermarket shelves were empty of...
Coming Home after 500 Years // By never giving up, she found what she...
Genie Milgrom knew something was terribly wrong. Even as a little girl, she had always struggled with her family’s Catholic faith and identity, she...
In praise of praise
In 1994, I started gathering stories about Shlomo Carlebach for my first book, Holy Brother. One of the themes that continuously crept up was...
A Slip of a Knife // Mashgiach Yossi Goldstein was hard at work, ensuring...
“Don’t call my wife yet,” Yossi told his boss at the meat processing plant where he was employed.
Meat was Yossi’s specialty, having worked in...
Celebrity Reporting Left Me Hungry // Kosher living nourishes me
Keeping kosher was not a priority in my childhood home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. My parents’ priorities included raising us to pursue a university...
Daddy Day Care // When Mom’s away, Dad… Um, better don’t ask.
Gitty called me at 11:00 p.m., an hour before she had to head to the airport to catch her flight. “Chanchy, I’ve changed my...
A Man on a Kosher Mission // GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin...
It started with a random text message from my editor early one afternoon. “Want to go to Kentucky tomorrow?”
I chuckled at the way the...
Reporting on the World of Kashrus // Rabbi Yosef Wikler of Kashrus Magazine describes...
For most kosher consumers, the extent of their contact with the kashrus industry is when they check packages of food at the grocery store...
“I Was Deliberately Given an Infected Liver—to Save My Life” A medical breakthrough leads...
Sixty-five-year-old Betty Huart was dying of liver cancer. If she was lucky, in a few months she would turn 66—the age her father had...
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Impeach the President // Exclusive interview with Republican Congressman ...
One of the downsides of being in the public eye is that far more attention is paid to one’s gaffes and controversies than to...
