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Profiles
His calendar was booked…with upsherens and bas mitzvahs. But Mordechai Shapiro was determined to be a wedding singer. His fresh, fun sound

By Yisroel Besser

Profiles
Sam Menlo lost everything in the Holocaust, except his faith and determination. So it’s no wonder he single-mindedly built the spiritual infrastructure that’s served Los Angeles f ...

By Barbara Bensoussan

A Few Minutes With
Israel’s Right, judicial reform, the Trump peace plan

By Omri Nahmias

The Rose Report
Kahanism’s comeback and the rise of Otzma

By Binyamin Rose

Washington Wrap
More bad news for pro-Israel Democrats

By Omri Nahmias

Metro & Beyond
New York State vs. yeshivos heads to court

By Yochonon Donn

Metro & Beyond
An unusually long parade of lawmakers at Agudah’s lunch

By Yochonon Donn

On Site
Yossi Goldschmidt’s camera captures the grit and grandeur of Yerushalmi life

By Shlomi Gil

The Gatekeeper's Daughter
“I wonder if he really is my father. Farmer Gudaitis said he was a silversmith. How many silversmiths could there have been in the Lithuanian underground?”

By Esther Teichtal

Center Stage
Even in the poor lighting, Gabriella caught her blush. This was the first time in their lives that these girls were being made to feel different

By Gila Arnold

Musings
By the time I came onto the scene, the extended family had grown so large that we spilled out of Aunt Vali’s small apartment

By Chayale Saibil

Magazine Feature
Generations after Mordechai foiled a plot by speaking the language of the plotters, seven anecdotes about how dangerous speaking English can be

By Zivia Reischer

Personal Accounts
There are many creative ways of helping our fellow Jews without compromising their dignity. Nine hidden acts of giving that lit up lives

By Riki Goldstein

On Topic
The masks that conceal who we really are and instead project the image we prefer people see? What do we gain — and lose — by donning them?

By Esther Kurtz