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Magazine Feature
Dayan Moshe Aharon Kurtstag never expected to leave his Jerusalem beis medrash for far-off Johannesburg of the 1960s. Now back in Eretz Yisrael 50 years later, he’s left behind a ...

By Rav Eliyahu Gut and Rav Ephraim Galinksy

Profiles
Zusha’s Shlomo Gaisin and Zach Goldschmiedt have created an old-new mix of mantra-like songs that cut through factions and go straight to the heart of a post-modern generation

By Barbara Bensoussan

Magazine Feature
Jewish barbers see lines snaking around the block the week before Pesach, and then suddenly all is quiet until the Lag B’omer rush. Stories from the other side of the chair before ...

By C.S. Teitelbaum and Chananel Shapiro and Yisroel Besser

The Current
Talking UN bias, Palestinian terror, and Trump’s peace plan, with Jason Greenblatt

By Gershon Burstyn

The Explainer
Inside the China Trade War

By Gedalia Guttentag

The Rose Report
The Deal of the Century will come: here’s how Israel should cope with it

By Binyamin Rose

The Rose Report
Israel will be advised to look before they leap and adopt a policy of Making Israel Reciprocal Again

By Binyamin Rose

Inside Israel
With an eye on his legal woes, Bibi struggles to build a coalition

By Eliezer Shulman

EndNote
"It’s a truly heilige niggun"

By Riki Goldstein

I dare me
National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an annual challenge that takes place each November. Participants commit to writing daily to produce a 50,000-word novel in 30 days

By Elisheva Appel

Windows
We see men running, talleisim flapping after them in the wind. We run after them, to the makeshift bomb shelters set up behind the shul

By Sara Bonchek

LifeTakes
We chat of summer plans, jobs, dreams, and hopes. And who we are. I find myself defending something I never thought so much about

By Rivka Streicher

Seven Spheres
To be personable, you need to develop your personality

By Mrs. Shani Mendlowitz

Story Time
“I’ll spare myself from your guesses, Richard. Instead, make yourself useful and travel to the only people in my country who can answer my question, the Jews. Bring me their wises ...

By Yehuda Bromberg