Columbia’s new Jews // The South American country is seeing a surprising boom...

In 2009, I was taking my daughter to the Centro Israelita de Beneficencia (CIB) for Hebrew school when the taxi driver asked me if...

Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news, but we clung...

Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would...

The Flower Frenzy // We thought our Shavuos gift was taken care of

Erev Shavuos afternoon found me rushing around the house doing some last-minute tasks. Yom Tov was fast approaching, and I was frantically trying to...

Rav Leibel Stempel // In a series of conversations, Rav Leibel Stempel reflects...

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,” says Shlomo Hamelech in Mishlei (18:21). I recently experienced that truism when I was...

John Kerry’s Iranian Friends // Reports of the former secretary of state leaking...

John Kerry prides himself on his relationships with senior officials of some of the world’s most notorious regimes, ties that he says have led...

Torah Partnerships in the Workplace // The Phenomenon of Adopt-a-Kollel Corporate

Seven years ago, the Torah world in Eretz Yisrael was in crisis. The Yesh Atid Party wielded much power in the government and slashed...

Is This the Baal Shem Tov’s Sefer Torah? // A mysterious Torah scroll discovered...

For many years, Rabbi Yisroel Aharon Kletzkin has been scouring the world for ancient sifrei Torah, and he has discovered quite a few that...

Hoping for A Miracle // The doctors had horrible news, but we...

Our story begins with a pregnancy. A run-of-the-mill, perfect pregnancy. My husband and I are parents to five healthy children, and this baby would...

Beyond The Piping Bag // It’s never just been about a passion for pastry...

The story I’m about to share with you will take us across many settings and continents...from the crime-ridden streets of Bogotá, where children ride...

Nixing the Shidduch Pix // Lisa Elefant is leading a group of over 200...

If you have a child currently in the shidduch parshah, you might have noticed that the shidduch résumés you’ve been sent in the past...