Belarus Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe // Is Putin behind it all?

here are thousands of people massed at the border between Belarus and Poland, hoping to get into the European Union. The frigid weather is...

The Unsuspecting Passengers // Was the person on the bus a bachur or...

For once, I was the one with the car. As a lecturer in numerous seminaries in Yerushalayim and elsewhere in Eretz Yisrael, I tend...

Perfect Spaghetti Lasagna 

1 16-oz. package spaghetti 9 oz full-fat (at least 38%) heavy cream 8.5-oz can tomato paste 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese Salt Cook spaghetti in salted water until al...

Loud Loutishness // Decibels aren’t arguments

Anyone with the unfortunate habit of listening to talk shows may have noticed the inverse relationship between loudness and logic. Or as Leonardo da...

Brisket in Honey-Wine Sauce

Brisket is one of my favorite cuts of meat. It cooks for hours, and just when you start to think that it’ll never get...

The Vibrancy of Iran’s Jews // Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, chief rabbi of Iran, discusses...

The place that people would probably least expect to have a blossoming Jewish community is the country of the ayatollahs. Yet Iranian Chief Rabbi...

An Unlikely Kinship // How a Zionist attorney and the founder of the...

Chana Chovav-Maizel of Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, has spent nearly six decades as a real estate attorney and has represented religious institutions and yeshivos as...

Behind Bars // A day in the life of a prison chaplain by Devorie...

Every Friday afternoon, Rabbi Yankee Raichik goes to jail. He drives to the LA County Jail Twin Towers in Downtown Los Angeles—the largest jail...

Hummus with Sauteed Mushrooms

Hummus has to be one of the most popular Shabbos foods in Yerushalayim. Along with an incredible hummus recipe, I’ve brought you lots of...

It’s Only Stuff // Making amends for what you can— and...

It’s one of those memories that still make me cringe. It was January 1984. I was 16 years old, one of five counselors who...