This Week's Edition

They say it rained like wild here last week. The downpours were torrential and there was flooding in parts of the country. Here in Jerusalem some say there was...

Question I am a bachur in my early twenties. I have never been married; yet, for reasons I don’t know, shadchanim have been asking me to go out with divorced...

  Dear Esther, I am a 44-year-old male. I would say I grew up in a functional home with normal, average parents who did their best to raise their three children....

  In the world of shidduchim, I think that singles are looking out for themselves. They don’t tend to think of their friends and who they can set them up...

It is a confluence of prominent women in the Five Towns and surrounding communities who have been meeting for most of the last year regarding an idea. The project...

Repeal “No Bail” Law Dear Editor, My mother often recounted how her brother, at the young age of 14, arrived home one day, suitcase in hand. He reported that the “shkotzim,”...

  Just about no one wants a war or even a street fight, not in the Golan Heights and not in Crown Heights. Almost suddenly these have become particularly trying and...

By Malkie Hirsch Lately I’ve been noticing how many of our interactions involve posing and answering questions. Some are conversational, like “How’s your day?” Others are more practical: “Do the kids have...

December came in with a lot of bad news from a variety of places. The first and most disturbing were the terrible tragedies occurring throughout the tristate area, with...

  Dear Esther, My older sister Anita is in her forties and never got married. Honestly, I’m not so sure she ever will or if she even wants to marry. Regardless,...