The Blessing of Bread
Taking challah is practical, material — and a spiritual tether
Wave of the Future
As the midterm fiasco convulses the GOP, can a buoyant DeSantis power past Donald Trump?
So Much for the Red Wave
To understand why the actual result was more of a mild ripple, we need to look behind the numbers and trends
The Yiddishe Kopp
What is it about Jews that puts us in the forefront — for good or for ill — of so many cutting-edge areas of life?
Gone but Not Forgotten
Everyday items that are disappearing... or already gone
The “Brisker Rav” of Williamsburg
When the Communists began stamping out Yiddishkeit in Russia, Rav Simcha and his family emigrated to the United States in 1924
The Lens: Issue 936
Rabbi Moshe Weinberger davens at the kever of the Arizal
Nothing Bad Comes from Heaven
Terror survivor Shimon Levy used faith and his beketshe to avert another casualty
Family First Inbox: Issue 818
“Dovid Hamelech first validates the pain, acknowledges the suffering (whether major or trivial), and only then moves on to focusing on the merit suffering has”
A Fishy Ending
“Jolly Solly, why do you have scaffolding up?” asked Fishel
“In a Few Years, Will I Be Done Being the Mother of My Sons?”
While your mother is closer to her daughters than she is to her sons or their wives, this isn’t a universally true pattern
