My Experience As Part Of The Historic Israel Rally
“Bring them home! Bring them home! Bring them home!” The surging crowd of over 290,000 people gathered in the National Mall of Washington, DC,...
Jews Outside Israel – Protect Yourselves
October 7, 2023, will be remembered as the day that changed Israel forever. From the first news report right up to this very moment, world Jewry...
Please, No Museums
The discussions have already begun. How will the world memorialize the 1,400 Jews brutally massacred on October 7? Monuments? Statues? Museums? If...
No Fingerprints
Some people are afraid to watch Frankenstein and Dracula movies, films about monsters attacking cities, and invasions of space creatures in UFOs. ...
Goodbye, George
I want to give an update on three prior columns of mine concerning Fatima Mousa Mohammed, the CUNY Law School 2023 graduation speaker who made...
Style & Living
Behind The Scenes In Gaza
Once upon a time (after the late 1950s), Gaza was a tourist destination. People spent the day touring Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, Rafah, and Heletz....
Wartime Wedding
In the weeks before the most recent Yom Tov, Reuven Lebetkin and Shirel Tayeb were in the final stages of planning the wedding of their dreams,...
Week Five
Here we are - five weeks into this challenging period in which we find ourselves. I’m back at work, in person, full schedule. After a stretch of...
Torah
The Lost Suitcase
There’s no panic quite like discovering that your suitcase has disappeared from beneath the bus you had just traveled on, right before a two-day Yom Tov...
The S’gulah
One of the well-known maggidim in Eretz Yisrael was once invited to speak at a mesivta in Jerusalem to deliver a shmuess and words of chizuk. He...
A Small Share
Before one of his overseas trips, a woman asked Rabbi Yerachmiel Milstein, a lecturer in Aish HaTorah’s Discovery Program, if he could take a...
