Tag: Thisweek

Afamous humorist once speculated about why it is that people would spend a few months of hard work writing a book when they can...

Recently published by JEM (Jewish Educational Media), Early Years is a 550-page historical tome documenting the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s life before his arrival in America. Mapping...

The search for a satellite community near London started two years ago after the burgeoning Stamford Hill kehillah was being priced out of the...

There is perhaps no day on the Jewish calendar when it is more important to hone our storytelling skills than on Pesach night, when...

When I was invited to discuss the growing challenges facing today’s youth with Rav Dovid Cohen, shlita, the venerable rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Chevron,...

As I walked briskly toward my subway stop at 80th and Hudson in Queens, I glanced casually, out of well-worn habit, at a steel...

The discovery of the Cairo Genizah, the storehouse of medieval manuscripts and documents in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo, in the...

People think being a financial planner only involves crunching numbers for billionaires who have too much money for their own good. Invest in stocks...

When I was growing up there was a joke going around, attributed to the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l, that the driving distance between Williamsburg and...

For the past four years Rabbi Menachem Mallinger has been living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by rugged mountains and steep valleys. He...