Day Zero Is Coming // As the South African metropolis of Cape Town...

Get up and go over to the nearest water tap in your house. Yes, you, reading this, right now. Turn the tap on. Do you...

In Loco Parentis // A divorced father visits his son

“Where are we going, Ta?” Moishy asked me as he climbed into the front seat of my rental Corolla, clutching a bag of potato...

“Learning Shas Saved My Life” // ami speaks to rabbi Yochanan leizer katz...

It was a high-stakes auction. Participants weren’t putting up money for their bids. Instead, they were offering blatt Gemara. And while that auction shocked...

Dinner is Served // It would have been a shame to let it go...

My cellphone rang just as I was dozing off. Groggily, I pressed the talk button. “Hello,” I croaked, slightly disoriented. “Hi, Nechama. It’s Gitty Klein,” my...

Almost Like Being There // How unfair that I’d missed my husband’s childhood!

As I prepare for my son’s upsherin, his first major milestone, I am totally predictable. As an emotional, intense and rather imaginative person, I...

From Vision To Reality

If there is one Hebrew word a foreigner quickly picks up in Israel it’s “pekak.” That is inevitable, since wherever you wish to go...

Killing Arafat // Author Ronen Bergman reveals the secret inside…

It was an ambitious, grandiose plan bordering on madness, and it could have changed the face of the Middle East. It was a plan that...

49 Phrases to Calm an Anxious Child

For an adult, anxiety can be hard to deal with. But what do you do when your child is experiencing it? Here are tools...

Women to Know: Naomi Elbinger

The first thing that strikes you about Naomi’s house is the garden. It’s not one of those sculpted, landscaped magazine gardens. This garden features...