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Hurricane Irma. For days, it was all anyone could talk about. A huge hurricane, the strongest the Atlantic had seen in recorded history, induced fascination and hysteria across the United States....

This story appears on The Layers Project website. Please see the link below to read the whole story. I will start with this: I am 31 and I just got married....

Since it was introduced 10 years ago, the iPhone has been a great disruptor, heralding an end to everything from paper maps to small talk. Here’s a (slightly) tongue-in-cheek look at...

We hear a lot about anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, not a day goes by without something horrible going by in our newsfeeds, whether it be anti-Semitic attacks, acts of vandalism, hate speech or...

Sivan Rahav Meir is an unusual Israeli celebrity– in addition to being a highly-respected and immensely popular TV news reporter she is also a religious mother of 5 young children and...

The first question most people asked me when I told them I was moving to Eretz Yisrael was usually, “have you lost your mind?” This was generally followed by a question...

We’ve been a little antsy lately because of neo-Nazis and White Supremacists but we haven’t really discussed the trigger event. We all know that the march in Charlottesville was sparked by...

The best advice I got about family relationships was this: Don’t talk when you are angry. It should go without saying then, that we should not engage in any type of...

It finally stopped raining, the flood waters began to recede, and the sun emerged from beneath the heavy storm clouds that had been obscuring its image for so many days. Houstonians...

Last week, The Forward featured an article by Michelle Honig entitled “Why This Orthodox Layering Trend Has To Stop.” In it, the author opines that shells – the snug, long-sleeved shirts worn...