Tag: Thisweek
Friend Or Deadly Foe? // They Were Unlikely Buddies In Battle,...
When the First Lebanon War broke out in 1982, I was a soldier, performing my two year and eight months compulsory service. I was...
Finding Light In Darkness // A Conversation With Yanky Meyer, The...
Many of the stories my esteemed guest shares with me are not for the faint of heart.
“One of the things Misakim takes care of,”...
The Other Western Wall
In 1889, a Russian Jew recorded his experience as he stood before the Western Wall for the first time.
“I don’t remember how my shoes...
On Death and Mourning // A Widow Must Come To Terms...
I lost my mother last year. Eleven months later, with no warning, I lost my husband. The wheel of life goes round and round...
The Exodus Bensalem, PA // A Community Built on Kiruv
The growth of small communities differs from place to place. Some are planned; some develop organically. And there’s usually a mix of the two....
Lost to the Frost // Does a Cold Winter Mean a...
An unusually cold and frosty winter in Italy has led to concerns that there may be a shortage of Yanover esrogim as the Sukkos...
A Witness to Presidential Corruption // John Dean, Who Brought Down...
Nowadays, John W. Dean III is no longer the boyish-looking, horn-rimmed 34-year-old who mesmerized the world with his dramatic testimony before the Senate Watergate...
When The Talmud Was Burned
How was it that you, O Law, given by G-d, the Consuming Fire,
Should be consumed by the fire of mortals,
And that the heathens weren’t...
Two Countries, One Struggle // The Indian Prime Minister And A...
O one of the most moving moments of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Israel occurred during his meeting with ten-year-old Moishe...
The Shirt Off My Back // A Brush With Mental Illness
My mother says that Joyce “cured” her. I didn’t know that having an open-door and open-heart policy is something that needs a cure or...
