Tag: Thisweek
The Life Of the Rosh Yeshivah // Rav Aharon Yehudah Leib...
Late Monday night, after our Chanukah issue went to print, the sad besurah reached us from Eretz Hakodesh about the petirah of the gadol...
Leaving No Jew Behind // A Visit With the World-Renowned Singer...
"If words are the pen of the heart,” the Alter Rebbe, Rav Schneur Zalman of Liadi, taught, “then song is the pen of the...
Late to the Party // It’s not over until Flynn sings
A Time to Be Late
It is 2:28 when our Uber driver pulls up at the junction of 15th Street and Alexander Hamilton Street NW....
Jews? What Jews? // Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit canceled in Frankfurt...
Imagine the ridiculousness of this: The Palestinians claim that the Jews have no historical connection to Eretz Yisrael, Yerushalayim or the Har Habayis. Nevertheless,...
China Tried to Co-Opt The Holocaust
The discovery of new evidence concerning China’s interest in helping Jews escape from Nazi Germany sheds light on a little-known chapter in the history...
From the Ground Up // An Interview with the Master...
If ever a gorgeous blue sky could give me the chills, it was on my recent visit to the World Trade Center site. The...
Flying with the Birds // A bird expert takes flight to...
When he was a little boy, Yossi Leshem had but one dream: to be able to fly like a bird.
“I used to take walks...
Mission Accomplished // Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel Reflects on This Year’s...
This year’s convention slogan was “Together We Will.” As I mentioned to Dayan Abraham last week, this seems to be like a kankan yashan...
The Heroes of Harpoon // How Israel bankrupted terror groups. Part...
Financial Quarantine
In Part I, we discussed the Harpoon unit, a secret Israeli operation to bankrupt terrorists, and how it did not work very well...
Washington Insider // The Regrets of a Tax Man
Rarely does one come out publicly and admit that his signature achievement was not just a failure, but, in hindsight, a myth. However, when...
