Last week, my daughter sent me a video of my 3-year-old twin grandsons watching their minivan go through the car wash. They were shrieking with

Last year, I took my family to Florida for a winter vacation. During a Shabbos walk, we met up with a man with jet skis

I have toured many cities and parts of Eretz Yisrael: Teveria, Tzfas and the Chermon Mountain in the North; Ein Gedi, the Dead Sea, Mitzpeh

A student of mine recently gave me a book about the great sage, Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, zt”l— rosh yeshiva of Kamenitz in Eretz Yisrael—who passed

During the summer, our yeshiva hosts a Torah Umesorah SEED program with eight yeshiva bochurim from the Yeshiva of Staten Island. These young men spend

There used to be a game show called “Let’s Make a Deal,” where the host told contestants to choose one of his many pockets. Some

Last week I was in Los Angeles for a family wedding and saw my old friend Rabbi Shimon Abramczik. We had both lived in Maalot

Many students of mine grew up without knowledge of Torah and mitzvos, first making their commitment to Yiddishkeit as adults. Their road was not easy,

By late afternoon, my cell phone is usually down to one bar. My many phone calls deplete the battery. Our bodies are the same way.

Last year, my friend Leibe Leichter had a flight that was canceled. He didn’t receive a refund after a reasonable time, so he spoke to

All of us cringe at some of the unwise things we’ve done. I remember spending a week’s vacation with friends in Tzefas. One night, as