Marking A Milestone: Rav Oelbaum’s Fifty Years Of Rabbinic Leadership
Kew Gardens Hills is a truly singular neighborhood. It is filled with shuls and chashuve rabbanim, a wide array of chesed organizations, and, above...
Israel’s Own Charlie Kirk
The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk is still being covered by Israeli news. Articles, pictures, and videos have been posted on countless sites, and...
Curtis Sliwa Visits the Ohel Ahead of Election Day: A Night of Prayer, Reflection, and Connection
After a long day crisscrossing the five boroughs, mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa made a late-night stop at one of New York’s most sacred sites — the...
…And Now What?
The mayoral election is finally over, and the nightmare scenario so many of us feared has come to pass. Now numerous anxious voters will have to...
Releasing The Epstein Files
During the shutdown, much of the federal government was still operating, although the employees were not getting paid. The House of Representatives...
Style & Living
A Cart With A Heart
Carts are the latest craze here in Israel. First came the coffee carts. Israelis take their coffee very seriously. While they’ve existed for years,...
Dancing With The Torah In Tel Aviv
Secular? Yes. Anti-religious? Some, I’m sure. But that would not describe any of the people my husband and I met over Yom Tov. And we met many. As...
Torah
Twin Souls, Opposite Journeys
As twins, Yaakov and Esav shared the same DNA, the same nature, and yet they emerged as radically different people. One became a patriarch of our...
A Journey Of Faith And Family
Raised in Brooklyn, Rochel grew up appreciating that she was Jewish, and that was about it. Her only connection to Orthodox Judaism came through...
The Dust Of Their Feet
Chazal teach: “Hovei mis’avek b’afar ragleihem” (Avos 1:4) — Attach yourself to the dust of the feet of Talmidei Chachamim.
