Malkie Hirsch: Realizing Over and Over Again
By Malkie Hirsch
Sometimes, the realization that my 40-year-old husband died at work will hit me really hard in middle of the day.
Sounds funny, because of course I know that...
Malkie Hirsch: Making Plans
By Malkie Hirsch
We had plans.
Things to look forward to in the future, while raising the beautiful family we created together.
The Sunday lunches we’d embark upon once the boys would...
Mistress Of Ceremonies
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
You know what it’s like when an idea pops into your head and you foolishly mention it in the company of others, without thinking things through,...
Dear Dini,
By Malkie Hirsch
She got married before me and had her first child before me; basically, she didn’t fight the adulting portion of life like I did. In fact, the...
‘The Empty Wagon’: A Review Of R’ Yaakov Shapiro’s Attack on Zionism
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro’s "The Empty Wagon" is one of the most controversial books to hit the Orthodox world in decades. Its 1,373 pages deal with the...
The Karpoff Difference
By Larry Gordon
Sometimes there are things in life that are just too difficult to get done—and that is where Marilyn Karpoff comes into the picture.
Marilyn has a fascinating story...
From Good To Great: YU Online Course Teaches Rabbis The Art Of Public...
By Rochelle Maruch Miller
Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future and affiliate Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) recently launched “Drashas and Shiurim: From Good to Great,” a continuing rabbinic...
Broken But Fixable
By Malkie Hirsch
A couple of months after Moshe died, things in our house started breaking. And I don’t mean the color printer (which hasn’t worked in months).
I mean the...
Bar Mitzvahs And Babies
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
I’ve always had planned births.
There was none of that waking up in the middle of the night amid a pool of amniotic fluid and making a...
Loneliness vs. Solitude
By Malkie Hirsch
“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”
—Paul Tillich
It’s funny how last week I wrote all about meeting the coolest...
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