The Item in the Basement // Was there a secret behind...
It had been a long, hard week, the tail end of a long, hard month, and I was feeling as stormy and dreary as...
Unexpected Treasures // The miracle of finding pieces of yourself you didn’t...
When a diamond suddenly slips out of its setting and plunges into a dark hole from which it can never be retrieved, there is...
All of our Lives // Dancing Shadows by Nechama Bornstein
I was living in Copenhagen and it was my first Chanukah.
Every night I would light the shamash, add one more candle to my grandparents’...
Now, That’s a Cup of Coffee! // Disappointment turns to amazement on the...
Everyone in the kosher food industry knows about Kosherfest, a two-day trade fair in New Jersey that draws thousands of manufacturers, distributors and suppliers...
The Rabbi Who Unchained Women // My father witnessed the pain of agunos...
“Is this the residence of Chana Sharfstein? May I speak to her, please?” The woman on the phone sounded anxious, tense and quite uncomfortable.
“Good...
On the search for my daughter’s shidduch // We didn’t want...
T
he Sanderses don’t want to send their daughter to Monsey.
That was the explanation we gave the shadchan when he suggested the Brown boy for...
Back Again // From challah to tefillin to yeshivah by Shterna Karp
W
ith a loud ring, the last Friday bell rang on the campus of Spanish River High, a public school in Central Boca Raton, Florida....
The Unsuspecting Passengers // Was the person on the bus a bachur or...
For once, I was the one with the car. As a lecturer in numerous seminaries in Yerushalayim and elsewhere in Eretz Yisrael, I tend...
An Unlikely Kinship // How a Zionist attorney and the founder of the...
Chana Chovav-Maizel of Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem, has spent nearly six decades as a real estate attorney and has represented religious institutions and yeshivos as...
It’s Only Stuff // Making amends for what you can— and...
It’s one of those memories that still make me cringe. It was January 1984. I was 16 years old, one of five counselors who...
