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...
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...
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...
Ha’Sameiach B’Chelko
By Malkie Hirsch
I’m so lucky. Yes, you read that correctly. Me. I’m the lucky one.
I get to see the most beautiful parts of people when they give selflessly of...
About Parental Alienation
By Larry Gordon
At least five years ago, the son of a friend of mine was redd a shidduch by a semiprofessional shadchan. My friend related to me that the...
Heard in the Bagel Store: Shidduch Fraud
Why is it that in these somewhat advanced and contemporary times we allow the idea of seeking matrimonial matches for our children — shidduchim — to be equated with...
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IDF kills at least 4 Palestinian terror operatives in West Bank arrest raid; 2...
(JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces killed at least four Palestinians during an operation to arrest terrorist operatives in the West Bank.
Two Israelis were...
Aisav’s Tears and AOC’s Tears
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The headlines blasted how in today’s vote on Iron Dome funding – which passed 420-9, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) both...
YUConnects Celebrates 500th Engagement
YU’s unique relationship-building resource caters to entire Jewish community
New York, NY, September 23, 2021 – What began 13 years ago as a local effort...