Opinion
OK, I’ll admit it: Royalty these days is nothing but a puff of smoke and mirrors. But there I was,…
On the far left side of the beit midrash, three rows from the back of the room, one seat in…
My mother used to admonish us with her favorite saying: “Not everything that one thinks should be spoken, and not…
I was born in America, yet I consider myself a refugee. As a young adult, I fled the secular world…
Miriam inside the gates of the White House. Courtesy of Miriam Shapiro The invitation finally came, but unfortunately…
In my childhood, a half-century ago in Buffalo’s North Park neighborhood that served as a passage point between the East…
As I looked out the window of the El Al jet, the plane was lifting off the runway. The fellow…
I grew up in a home where we usually watched Saturday morning cartoons on television, where we often ate chazir,…
Though I proudly wear my kippah and am thus identifiably Jewish, I often keep my religious life to myself. Being…
The rebbetzin’s creed should be similar to that of the physician: “Above all, do no harm.” The rest is commentary.…
“In the period that will precede the coming of Mashiach . . . youth will blanch the faces of elders;…
