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
Second Thoughts
We are all united in our loneliness and in our faith that before long all this will be behind us
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
Fundamentals
The back stage has been revealed as the only stage. And the audience? Only G-d
A Gift Passed Along
My photo of the tallis in Dubai made waves across the Arab-language media
LifeLines
“This is the task Hashem has entrusted me with,” I answered them simply. “To care for this precious soul”
Story Supplement
All Ezzy had to do was give each pot a quick rinse. How hard could that be?
