Profiles
What do a Skverer chassid and an Amish farmer have in common besides their mode of dress?
Counter Point
The conversation about the uneven nature of the shidduch process has drawn sustained and significant feedback. A new batch of letters is featured here
Outlook
Both reports were based on the same exact evidence. Nunes told the truth; Schiff did not
Point of View
The profound teshuvah of the Chashmonaim turned around an entire nation. Maybe ours can too
On Topic
What makes the experience of starting out married life in Eretz Yisrael so elevating and valuable for some couples, and so disastrous and destructive for others?
Text Messages
It’s possible for individuals and parties to deserve both credit and blame at the same time
One Day Closer
Nothing is forever, my sponsor said. Just take it one day at a time. Don’t obsess about tomorrow. That’s way too big.
One Day Closer
Figuring that daf yomi was for the older generation of serious balabatim, I told myself that maybe I’d start doing the daf in my forties or fifties.
One Day Closer
”If you want the learning you do to really make an impact,” Rav Schorr told the men, “then take one daf and review it 101 times, just like Chazal tell us.’”
One Day Closer
Each day passed with a sense of victory, a sense of anticipation, of emunah, of hope. Day 10, Day 20, Day 30… Slowly, the countdown crawled toward Day 33.
One Day Closer
I got curious. Mutti was an enigmatic fellow and I knew he wouldn’t give me any easy answers, so I blocked his path and demanded to know why he was always in such a rush to leave.
One Day Closer
Why did I have that niggling feeling that I was being held in an invisible chokehold? Wasn’t this just normal life?v
