Point of View
Rav Shach asked us not to glorify the IDF or the government leaders, even though we were writing for a secular audie ...
Outlook
Of those 110 e-mails, eight contained information that was top secret, the highest classification, a fact that was either ...
Text Messages
Indeed, the more seemingly endless the universe is discovered to be, the more it puts into stark relief the singularity ...
Voice in the Crowd
Maybe the little, lonely man in the silk beketshe was running a legitimate Baal Shem Tov–style operation in his sorry l ...
Second Thoughts
How does one become a thinker or a theologian? Is there an examination before one can practice thinking? Does one ...
EndNote
Many people have thanked me for the song because it helps them connect to their deepest reserves of emunah during hard ...
Magazine Feature
While Israel is bracing for a third battle with Hezbollah a decade after the Second Lebanon War, is the country any ...
Profiles
On Rav Zalman Sorotzkin zt”l’s 50th yahrtzeit, Mishpacha opens a treasure trove of personal writings shedding light on what ...
Fiction
“Tamar, we don’t want to go back there — to what happened before Shiffy’s wedding. Remember? In Three Steps? The shoppi ...
Jewish Geography
Are Israel’s shochtim working under dangerous conditions?
Summer Job
As Aviva sat down on the floor, trying to comfort her daughter, she could feel Dovi sitting there in silent judgment. ...
Kovna Rewrite
Stepping into the Moadon HaYehudi in Kaunas, Lithuania, feels like venturing up (down?) Penrose’s impossible staircase, stepping ...
Free Fall
Moe impulsively decides to accompany Harry to the nearby town for the last few hours of their leave. Annie prepares to ...
