Family First Feature
Once, there were no custom sheitels, kosher cookbooks, and seminaries. These pioneers changed that
A Promise Kept
Sometime during that awful era, I began fiddling around on the piano
A Promise Kept
Ayala, I try reasoning with myself. You have two options. You can either get to work making phone calls or you can cry
A Promise Kept
I can feel the strain through the thread. I am over effusive; she is cordial. Don’t touch me
A Promise Kept
Baba’s loving sentiments that the all-but-forgotten promise conveyed were dear to my heart
A Promise Kept
“What do you think?” Reb Laizor thundered. “Without mussar I would be like that too!”
A Promise Kept
We’d created a haven for them to unburden their hearts, and sent them away with the sweetness of home cooking
Risk Factor
Mommy, I tried to be there. Please tell Abba that 500 miles and quarantine is nothing for a Bivhilu
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
I printed that email in full and laminated it, and it hangs on my fridge to this day
For the Record
Lakewood, NJ had a few other “false starts” prior to Rav Aharon Kotler’s arrival there in 1943
Family Tempo
My dating life is a wreck. My job’s a failure. And now there's a high school reunion
A Gift Passed Along
Life is like one big game of I Spy, looking for people who need a ride, directions, or help
