Tag: Thisweek

I am prefacing my words by saying “bli neder,” which, I am told, in my Litivisher tradition is almost as bad as promising to...

There is almost nothing quite as controversial in Jewish communities as an eruv, but the coronavirus outbreak may have been more powerful than that....

We were adrift on the vast Caribbean Sea near the Dominican Republic when the virus hit the region. We sailed from one port to...

For the first time in a long time, I am optimistic that we can dodge the bullet of COVID-19, no matter how nasty its...

There is a Torah on display at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Encased behind glass, the discolored scroll looks brittle, as if it would...

e were relaxing in our tiny rented apartment when we heard a screech outside. Headlights were shining out in front; a couple of rednecks...

There is some very bad news and some exceptionally good news about COVID-19. Let’s talk about the bad news first. If the 1918 pandemic...

Rabbi Shloimy Greenwald was sick with COVID-19 himself when a friend sent a published letter of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn,...

After more than 500 days and three consecutive elections, Israel finally has a government. But not before Netanyahu invented all kinds of new ministries...

A series of FBI raids, a mysterious fire and a subsequent flood would lay waste to most of what remained of one of the boldest...