Tag: Thisweek

You probably had one of the most difficult jobs a human being can handle! It was challenging at times, but it was also the job...

I descend a flight of stairs and then another and another. The air is suffocating and the stairwell is gradually growing darker. Soon I...

There’s a reason that news is called “news”—it’s information that is supposed to be new. Somebody should tell that to the editors at The...

It doesn’t take long for anyone who meets Rabbi Lazer Brody, the noted author, inspirational speaker and spiritual guide, to appreciate the secret behind...

When Admiral Miklos Horthy, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, created the shadowy Order of Vitez (in Hungarian, Vitezi Rend) following World War I,...

What does success in creating a new neighborhood look like? Many of the neighborhoods we’ve looked at in this series are still in the...

I was born in Kiryat Shemona, Israel. My father was a policeman and my mother worked for the municipality. I was a born with...

Is the future of much of American Jewry to live in small villages sprinkled throughout Upstate Readers are always asking me questions about my...

At the stroke of midnight on May 2, 2011, four helicopters are crossing a range of mountains shared by Afghanistan and Pakistan, invading their...

During my first phone conversation with Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, a little over six years ago, I found myself telling him that Rav Reuven...