Emes Ve-Emunah

Suffering Charedim ( Mishpacha ) Just when I thought every argument about the Charedi draft exemption had been exhausted ad nauseam, along ...

Image from Photography by Rick and Rich I don’t often brag about my city. (Well... maybe I do. A little.) But I can’t help taking pride in h...

My parents becoming US citizens shortly after the Holocaust The doorbell rang and Ivan - the righteous gentile who sheltered and fed Jews hi...

Jews fighting Jews It’s hard. Much harder than Yom Kippur. (At least for me.) Tisha B’Av is meant to be hard. We are supposed to feel the ...

Rav Dov Lando I am beside myself with pain and anger at the following excerpt from  Rationalist Judaism: The State of Israel should never ...

IDF soldiers in the Chashmonaim brigade I am not a Religious Zionist, nor am I Charedi. The truth is that I am hard to peg. Always have been...

Image for illustration purposes ( Mishpacha ) Many years ago, a dear friend of mine, who happened to be the general studies principal of a C...

JD Vance and Joe Rogan I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. I really did. I admired his remarkable story of rising from a very di...

Street scene in Bnei Brak ( TO I ) I love Bnei Brak. It was my “home away from home” during the 1970s and 1980s, when my parents lived there...

Ro Khanna’s car stopped near the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta As lefties in Congress go, Ro Khanna is a moderate. By that I mean he d...