Tag: Thisweek

My intrepid research assistant, Yehoshua Wakenin, has been scouring the dark corners of social media for the latest intelligence developments among the group of...

For the past 70 years, the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, located at 6063 Drexel Road in the city’s Overbrook neighborhood, has been the prime...

Sitting at a table in Lakewood, I was on an important Zoom call when my phone began to buzz with incoming WhatsApp messages. Trying...

It’s not often that the phrase “and so I picked up the phone and called the President of the United States” comes up in...

“Smartness is not some kind of value that I put a whole lot of weight on. There are smart Nazis and smart xenophobes and...

Last week I merited to have a lengthy, uplifting and heart-to-heart conversation with Rav Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, founder of the Shuva Yisrael educational network...

“Wherever Hashem sends me is where I go,” the Sassover Rebbe tells me when I enter his Boro Park headquarters, where he has been...

I recently attended a sheva brachos where Rav Meilech Biderman spoke. Highlighting the extreme poverty that exists in Jerusalem, he mentioned that some years...

The recent questions about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic—and his apparent cover-up of how he handled it—are creating a...

The election campaigns of the chareidi parties were a bit sleepy until last week. After a year of COVID and lockdowns it’s only natural...