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Profiles
An assassin’s bullet took the life of Tunisian kehillah leader Rav Matzliach Mazuz on 21 Teves 5731/1971. Nearly half a century later, Rav Meir Mazuz relives his father’s murder

By Aryeh Ehrlich

Magazine Feature
Rabbi Pini Dunner, the popular writer, lecturer, history buff, and rabbi of Young Israel of North Beverly Hills, has amassed the world’s largest collection of items related to con ...

By Morris Engelson

Tribute
How did he so quickly grasp the condition of a 13-year-old bochur who doodled his shiur away?

By Rabbi Isser Zalman Weisberg

Inside Israel
As Israel girds for early elections, a renewed call for chareidi unity

By Eliezer Shulman

Washington Wrap
Syria and the shutdown threaten Trump’s support

By Omri Nahmias

Washington Wrap
Some 800,000 US employees won’t be getting their paychecks

By Omri Nahmias

Metro & Beyond
Director of Agudath Israel’s New Jersey office, Rabbi Avi Schnall, welcomes the proposed doubling of security funding for non-public schools

By Faygie Levy-Holt

LifeLines
“You really should have told me to come down to your office with my husband and broken this news to me in a nicer way”

By C. Saphir

Parshah
What’s the connection between freeing slaves and galus?

By Faigy Peritzman

EndNote
A kumzitz niggun is a genre all its own

By Riki Goldstein

EndNote
“I thanked and praised Hashem in a haze of joy”

By Riki Goldstein

EndNote
A cello solo is often used to replace vocals on stage

By Riki Goldstein

EndNote
“That opened the door wide to more and more music”

By Riki Goldstein

Off the Couch
My policy of not taking clients whose families I know

By Jacob L. Freedman MD