Medical Minutes // Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting, in all its various permutations, has become a fad,
but what does it really do?
Well, research on intermittent fasting still leaves much to...
In the Wake of a Wildfire // Personal and photographic Reflections on the devastation...
As told to Musia Kaplan
Photography by Eli Basri
Burning, blazing and blinding, a wildfire is one of nature’s most voracious forces. And yet, it is...
A Piece of My Heart // A daughter bids goodbye By Bella Sofer
My brother called to inform me that he had put our mother’s house—my childhood home—on the market just three short weeks after she returned...
The Napoleon // Had a year really passed without having spoken with my neighbor?
It was Sunday afternoon of Erev Rosh Hashanah, and I had just heard that one of my close friends had lost a baby. It...
Aha! Moments // Snowed In
Rabbi Pinchas Rieber is a seventh-grade rebbi who has been teaching for 30 years. His students have many opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities,...
Balancing the Books // Rivka Resnik is teaching young girls to be savvy...
My husband, Ephraim, and I began our married life in a small apartment in Richmond, Virginia. He was in medical school, and we were...
Where Are My Keys? // The saga of my constant searching By...
Sometimes my life has so many twists and turns that it reminds me of that children’s book that has “fortunately” on one page and...
The COVID Test // Ignorance is not Bliss By Leora Weiss
It was the long-awaited day.
When my close friend Pessy’s daughter returned home from seminary, I expected her to get engaged almost immediately. But as...
Priority Mail // They got them when they needed them
Last year, when Shloimi and Feige Steinmetz made a wedding for their son in Lakewood, they decided to take advantage of their visit to...
From Atop Har Tzion // In this charming Jerusalem neighborhood, Rabbanit Shoshana Goldstein deftly...
I’m standing beneath the towering Zion Gate after a five-minute walk from the light rail station in Jerusalem, which took me through the Jaffa...