A caveat: while reading the cover story in this issue about the frightening rise in anti-Semitism, it is easy to succumb to the notion that Jews are being targeted the…
Growing up in Williamsburg in the fifties and sixties, I had something most of my friends could only dream of having: grandparents. I even had both sets. My friends, most…
I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Williamsburg in the 1950s and 60s, as I have written about in this column many times, was comprised of mostly survivors—men and…
Not too many readers understand what it takes to come up with an eighty-eight-page full-color thought-provoking magazine, issue after issue, year after year. But since we recently learned that Jewish…
We are all familiar with the expression “two Jews, three opinions.” The fact that the Jewish people are opinionated is nothing new. Our Sages argued and debated endlessly in the…
As I write this message on a Motzaei Shabbos in early October, we just finished reading parashas Lech Lecha, where God tells Avraham to leave his birthplace, his family and…
We pride ourselves on producing a magazine that is not predictable and that brings you—our readers—articles you simply won’t find elsewhere. With our broad grasp of the Orthodox world, we…
We recently celebrated Shavuos, a holiday on which we rejoice in the giving of the Torah not just to a nation, but to 600,000 individuals. As Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan…
