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The Prince and I // A visit to the palace brings an orphan’s experience...

On a balmy day in May, Rabbi Aron Litwin of Manchester, England, stood face to face with a top-hatted, tail-coated Prince William, the prince...

The Library of Ancient Alexandria // An inside look at the library that housed...

The race to be the definitive repository of the world’s wisdom has consumed a slice of humanity since the advent of knowledge itself. From...

David H. Rosmarin // Center for Anxiety

I recently came across a clip from Rabbi David Ashear, who wrote many books on Emunah and bitachon, in which he tells the story...

All the Narishkeit Unfit to Print // Academic ignorance is a thing

Bless its journalistically responsible little heart (emphasis on “little”), The New York Times published a correction last week about an article that appeared several...

Selection 7: Brave New World // Malky Bornfreund

Their daughter Brachah had gotten married that evening. It was a lovely celebration. Her husband, Gavriel—the quintessential master of ceremonies—had been in his element,...

Selection 6: Her Heart’s Desire // Hadassah Topperman

It was only a few minutes’ walk from Chaim and Adina’s ground-floor apartment to the childhood home she had left six years earlier. Ever...

Selection 5: Pizza Break // Racheli Lebovics

It’s really amazing that you can spend close to ten hours with someone and not notice how bushy his eyebrows are. Then you hit...

Selection 4: Dangling Earrings // Aviva Frenkel

Reenie slid the bracelet under her sleeve when they left for the sheva brachos and hoped that Nosson wouldn’t notice. But he did. “Why are...

Selection 3: Scars of War // Sara Wolf

soup. She sat beside him as he swallowed spoonful after spoonful, ignoring the two slices of bread she had placed on the plate. Surely...

Selection 2: A House of His Own // Raizy Friedman

It was Cohen in mesivta who first let the cat out of the bag. “Hey, Spitz,” he said companionably as the group of 15-year-olds headed...