Close to Home: Chapter 4

“You can do this!” I told her. “Take all the laundry — clean, dirty, all of it — and put it in baskets in your car”

Mordy Kamenetsky

Mordy Kamenetsky’s entrepreneurial spirit has taken the primitive slurpee and elevated it from a typical July 11th treat to an experience

There’s a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Flatbush called Falafel Tanami

“The greatest way to ensure unity is by strengthening yourself, by reinforcing and fortifying your own commitment”

Holiness is the ability to be involved yet remain aloof

“Seminary is not breeding grounds for dysfunction. It is actually a very ideal place to take the first timid steps into adulthood”

The artist creating her special magic in front of the mirror is doing her job. You need a friend who will tell you the truth: It’s just too much

Rus Prupas paints reflections of a life brimming with color

She's a fixture at the Kosel for years and years, as diminutive and as glowing as the first time I met her

How Biden can help along Saudi-Israel normalization

The Three Weeks is a time to strive to bring back the focus, the love, the desire for connection with Hashem