This Week's Edition

By Yair Hoffman During a hockey game on October 23, a fan of the opposing team spotted an NHL staffer with a strange-looking mole on the back of his neck....

By R’ Nison Gordon, z’l America, the world’s magnate, the wealthiest country in the world, has declared war on poverty. If the talk is about fighting poverty, it means that there...

By Yochanan Gordon This week we observed the tenth of Shevat, which is the day the Frierdiker Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchak, passed away and the same day, one year later, when...

By Baila Sebrow Question Let me tell you about myself. I am a 52-year-old divorced female (but I am told that I look like I am in my late thirties/early forties)....

By Elisheva Liss Dear Elisheva, We think we may have an issue with our son and his rebbe, and we’re not sure what to do about it. According to our son,...

By Shmuel Katz If you are someone who has made regular visits to Israel over the years, your next visit will definitely come with some sticker shock. Over the last...

By Rabbi Moshe Taragin Thoughts about the terrible crimes committed by a trusted leader. In 1993, when the Lubavitcher Rebbe passed away, I was a young rabbi listening to troubling statements...

By Larry Gordon This was the second time I had been invited to visit the seat of power of Nassau County. The first was about 15 years ago, shortly after...

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Long before the age of the internet, the age when everything was shared and when nothing was taboo, there was a group of Israelites traveling through...

By Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier This is the tale of Shayna and Bentzi Cohen. Shayna and Bentzi are your all-American couple, bright, talented, and successful. Both were brought up in...