The Unabridged Version

This story happened back when I was a young and foolish bachur in an out-of-town yeshivah, looking for what they call a “chavayah,” an...

Accusations Against A Presidential Adviser // Q & A with Dr. Sebastian Gorka

When Admiral Miklos Horthy, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, created the shadowy Order of Vitez (in Hungarian, Vitezi Rend) following World War I,...

Mesclun Salad with Roasted Kabocha Squash, Pears, and Nuts

1 small kabocha squash 2 tablespoons olive oil ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon thyme ⅛ teaspoon black pepper 1 Fuji apple, thinly sliced 1 Bartlett pear, thinly sliced 6 ounces mesclun...

A Neighborhood Evolves // North Woodmere

What does success in creating a new neighborhood look like? Many of the neighborhoods we’ve looked at in this series are still in the...

Fire: A Lag BaOmer Tale

Once upon a time, long ago, in a basement apartment on the outskirts of Ramat Eshkol, there lived a mother and a father and...

Scissor Happy? I Was Anything But

"Eeew,” I always thought to myself whenever I opened the bottom cabinet in my parents’ den—the one full of boxes that contain old letters...

Lunch Break With Meir Ezra

I was born in Kiryat Shemona, Israel. My father was a policeman and my mother worked for the municipality. I was a born with...

Mocha Chewy Cookies

Tearful goodbye parties are a regular occurrence when you live in a young American neighborhood in Yerushalayim. So many people come and go (although...

Best Spies Inside Iran?

Is the future of much of American Jewry to live in small villages sprinkled throughout Upstate Readers are always asking me questions about my...

The Man Who Killed Bin Laden // Exclusive Interview With Navy SEAL Robert...

At the stroke of midnight on May 2, 2011, four helicopters are crossing a range of mountains shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan, invading their...