Protests Against Lockdowns Rock China // China’s zero-Covid policy caused economic havoc. Now it...
Empty streets. Barricades strung along roadways. Parked cars unused for so long that some of them can no longer be started. People indoors, some...
Sewage Soup // Call in the comedians!
The master of ceremonies stood on a platform in Times Square, loudly inveighing against people of non-color.
Flanked by two assistants dressed, like he was,...
Anne Frank’s Frum Friend // Hannah Goslar-Pick shares memories of her childhood in Holland,...
As I knock on the ordinary looking front door of a ground-floor Jerusalem apartment, I see only four English letters: PICK. To her neighbors,...
Frying Frenzy // Challah Shnitzel Sandwich
Serves 2–4
Canola oil, for frying
½ eggplant, sliced (unpeeled)
1 large challah
3–4 tablespoons matbucha or 1–2 tablespoons charif (spicy Israeli dip),
or both
4 freshly fried
pieces shnitzel
¼ red...
Make your ADHD Work for You // Mental health expert Dovid Becker’s advice for...
Focus—or more accurately, the lack thereof—keeps coming up in my conversations with the entrepreneurs featured in Lunchbreak. So many of us struggle with staying...
The Babysitter // My daughter-in-law took a different approach to parenting than...
I was in the middle of doing the seating arrangements for my daughter’s wedding when my daughter-in-law Leah called.
“Hi, Leah,” I said. “It’s a good...
Frying Frenzy // Spicy Maple – Bourbon Chicken Katsu
Serves 2–4
Chicken Katsu:
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon black pepper
2 eggs
½ cup breadcrumbs
½ cup crushed cornflakes
2 chicken breasts, sliced in half...
Preparing to Govern // A conversation with Congressman-Elect MIKE LAWLER about winning as a...
Michael Vincent Lawler (born September 9, 1986), a Republican from the 97th district in Rockland County, was elected to the New York State Assembly...
Why is the FBI Investigating Israel? // The Abu Akleh case and its political...
Last May, Shireen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old American reporter for Al Jazeera, was shot while she was covering clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian...
I Became a Plagiarist, a Book Lover, and Finally a Writer // All thanks...
We called our English teacher Mrs. Mean-a-ker instead of Mrs. Menaker, because to us third graders, that was the epitome of wit, and also...
APLICATIONS
The Secret Plansto Sabotage Iran // Did The New York Times...
There was a bit of an uproar when The New York Times published two articles on the same day concerning American covert involvement with...
