Tag: Thisweek

“Your mother is here.” “What?” “Your mother is here, outside.” “It can’t be. My mother is in Milwaukee.” “She’s waiting for you outside. Go speak with her.” I was...

This week, on a visit from Los Angeles, Chuck Abel was greeted at Yeshivas Ponevezh by its nasi, Rav Eliezer Kahaneman. Although this was...

Around this time of the year, it is customary in many shuls to switch the paroches to a white one for the Yomim Nora’im....

An American author and cultural critic once had this to say about the attribute of charisma: “Charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have...

Of all the people I’ve ever met, no story has ever touched me like that of Rabbi Yitzi and Dina Hurwitz. Rabbi Yitzi, who...

Last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with Corey Lewandowski was the circus watched around the world. According to most commentators, it was an event...

The elections have ended in what seems to be another stalemate. Here is a five-point summary of what happened: 1. Is this the endof an...

“The facts, Ma’am, just the facts,” as fictional detectives used to say. So let’s look at the evidence. 1. President Rouhani of Iran was in Turkey...

There’s a Jewish proverb that goes something like this: Whatever hasn’t happened in 1,000 years might happen in the next moment. Likewise, whenever I...

Every year before Rosh Hashanah, tens of thousands of Yidden from all over the world converge on Uman, the small Ukrainian city in which...