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Dr. Ben Kempner, Sir! Frum Physician Goes Navy

Navy Lieutenant Ben Kempner, thirty-two, wrestles with being a yarmulke-wearing, kosher-eating anomaly at work and a uniformed attraction sporting a…

PEOPLE

My Son, the Investigator

While most MBA graduates head directly for the corporate world, one idealist took a decidedly different turn. He’s happily blending…

ISRAEL

Speaking with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

Journalist Michael Freund converses with Israel’s former chief rabbi about the Israeli scene, anti-Semitism, and the recent translation into English…

JEWISH WORLD

Letter from South Africa

JOHANNESBURG — Shortly before I began a visit to South Africa late last year, my first time in the once-reviled…

ISRAEL

On and Off the Beaten Track in… the Af-Al-Pi-Chen Museum

The Af-Al-Pi Chen was one of the ships that participated in the struggle to bring Jews to Eretz Yisrael clandestinely…

JEWISH WORLD

Chaim Grade’s Centenary

In his writings, Chaim Grade conveys a picture of Eastern European Jewry that he knew so well. While he was,…

9/11

Through the Valley of Death

The following is a meager attempt to record the awesome occurrences that both my colleagues in Hatzalah–the emergency Jewish volunteer…

PEOPLE

Up-Close with Ruth Lichtenstein

  In the years following the Holocaust, survivors were, for the most part, silent about the devastation of European Jewry.…

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

The Surging Israeli Economy

Counting Israeli Shekels. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski We all know the old joke: “How do you become a millionaire in Israel?…

PEOPLE

Inside the Mind of A Chazzan: A Conversation with Cantor Joseph Malovany

Every year, as the chazzan starts the first few notes of the special Kaddish for the Yamim Noraim on the…

ISRAEL

Up Close with Yehuda Avner

Photos from The Prime Ministers, reprinted with permission from The Toby Press. Photo: Jono David Sitting in his private office…

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