Filling The Empty Nest

It's the sound that greets me first, the gentle murmur of roughly a dozen women at least 20 years my senior coming from somewhere...

My Mother’s Last Chesed

When my mother passed away, it wasn’t only her children and grandchildren who felt the void. The entire community mourned her petirah. My mother, a”h,...

Winds of Change

When I was growing up there was a joke going around, attributed to the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l, that the driving distance between Williamsburg and...

I Will Survive PTSD

When I was 18 I was drafted into the IDF, and a year later I became one of the original members of the elite...

Death Row Chaplain

For the past four years Rabbi Menachem Mallinger has been living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by rugged mountains and steep valleys. He...

Women To Know: Mrs. Debbie Shapiro

Parkinson’s is a very isolating disease. Your world grows smaller and slower, while around you, the people you know and love are rushing, accomplishing,...

Glennfinnan Viaduct

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12 Things About Food Coloring

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The Pesach Program That Wasn’t

We all know the stories from the early 1900s, when people lost their jobs week after week because they refused to desecrate Shabbos. One...

Women To Know

Interacting with Miriam Ballin pulls you into a fast-paced experience. You cannot sit across from this embodiment of multitasking without feeling a quickening of...