From my Table: Issue 803
I guess I’m on a dessert dry spell because I keep “not having time” until it’s Erev Shabbos and then I just need a hack. This one is a keeper.
Don’t Forget to Write
The world’s most interesting post offices
A Light to the World
Rav Binyamin Elyashiv shares the charms and challenges of growing up in the shadow of the gadol hador. A special conversation on Rav Elyashiv’s tenth yahrtzeit
The Crown
Just once, I would have enjoyed being the boy who was cheered with, “Happy Birthday!”
Senator Ernst to MBS: Recognize Israel
Israel-Saudi breakthrough needs more American muscle
Erasing the Past
The two mitzvos that erase the past both come on Yom Kippur
In the Nick of Time
David Shishlov refused to abandon Mariupol until he took a direct hit
For Love of the Land
A pen and a camera made Schaye Schonbrun Agudah’s man in the Knessiah Gedolah
Land of Yearning
Our longing for the Land is a yearning for holiness
Dear Doula
I was traumatized; not by the birth itself, but at the belief that I’d failed: as a student, as a woman, as a mother
A Letter to Heaven
I carried the story of Tali and her mother in my heart throughout my childhood
