A Gift Passed Along
When I took this photo, I wasn’t covering an event; I was part of the crowd davening
A Gift Passed Along
Mr. Reifman was an “alter Europa’esha Yid,” who had learned to lein in his hometown shtetl in Europe
A Gift Passed Along
A tangible link between lofty generations engaged in the same enduring dance between Heaven and earth
A Gift Passed Along
He was my principal; he was also my ally and my cheerleader and one of the only people who took an odd little girl, dreamy but fierce, and tended to her
A Gift Passed Along
If you took a moment and stepped inside, you were quickly overcome by the smell of dust, of pages, of history, of life itself
A Gift Passed Along
They know it’s the prelude to a busy 24 hours that begins with water
A Gift Passed Along
I found out that fiction can transport, uplift, and connect you to something bigger then yourself
A Gift Passed Along
I printed that email in full and laminated it, and it hangs on my fridge to this day
Editor's Letter
What is that elusive value, principle, legacy you hope to transmit?
A Promise Kept
My companions — along with the bag I was counting on to keep us alive — vanished in the chaos
Why I Do What I Do
No longer would I be a businessman who squeezed in some medical consulting between meetings. From now on, I realized, I had to devote the bulk of my day to medical advocacy
A Gift Passed Along
But that wasn’t all: next Rav Yaakov Meir spoke of the heart — the Yiddishe heart!
Magazine Feature
What exactly happened to the grapes and wines described in Tanach, Mishnah, and Gemara? The quest to decant new wines from ancient grapes
Musings
It’s walking through the sea while G-d turns the world upside down, it’s shaking in awe of His power to upend the natural order and create a nation
