There are lots of signs of summer. School and yeshiva end and camp begins. Tests and classrooms take a backseat to the relaxing outdoors. Weddings

Last year, I received an invitation to the wedding of Shmaryahu Shulman to Mika BenArbon. Shmaryahu had learned in my shiur two years before, for

I recently attended a wedding in which the chosson had just finished serving five years in the Marine Corps. There were multiple young men dressed

The city of Petra in Jordan is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. In my years learning in Eretz Yisrael, during

On June 12 there will be a major event in the CURE Stadium in Trenton, New Jersey, in honor of Adirei HaTorah—the Warriors of Torah.

During this shemitah year, my daughter in Eretz Yisrael went with her seminary to visit the farm of Doron and Ilana Towek, who are observing

I was deeply saddened last week to hear about the passing of Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, zt”l. I didn’t know him personally, but I was inspired

In the 1700s, Count Valentin Pototski (Potocki), a Polish nobleman, shocked his family and the Roman Catholic Church by converting to Judaism. He was known

This past week (25 Nisan) was the third yahrzeit of my grandmother, Mrs. Hansi Bodenheim. She had a profound impact on my life and the

Last year, Parshas Toldos was the occasion of the pidyon haben (redeeming the firstborn) of the older of our twin grandsons. For my own family,