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In my hands, I’m holding a photo that was taken twenty years ago. The snapshot is of a small boy, about four or five years old, dressed up in a miniature...

“Hamas leader killed, Arabs vow revenge.” There are more words below, but it’s hard for me to concentrate on the fine print. There is a fear that squeezes my heart, tighter,...

War. Such a horrible word. Born and bred in the U.S.A., I had never experienced War. Except for bits and pieces, I was too young to remember much of WWII. I...

I am in the supermarket in the late afternoon, choosing cucumbers and peppers. My preschool age son sits happily in the supermarket trolley, munching on bamba. The supermarket loudspeaker announces a...

30 seconds. Last night, as I was warming up some food for dinner in the microwave, something sparked inside of me when the microwave reached 30 seconds. 30 seconds. That’s the...

Here’s a purely hypothetical scenario: You are a soldier on a battlefield, and find yourself locked in hand-to-hand combat with an enemy soldier. During the struggle you manage to wound him...

I returned from Mumbai only a few days before terrorists attacked the very hotel where I had been staying, as well as the Chabad House where I had eaten many meals....

A few months ago I went on a trip to visit OU Israel’s latest project in Tel Aviv and I saw a glimpse of the Jewish future in the Land of...

Sukkot- 5769 – Israel, Jerusalem, The Old City, The Kotel I was torn – do I travel in towards the Old City of Jerusalem to celebrate, witness, and feel the aura...

One of the most powerful prayers of the entire high holidays is found not before the sounding of the shofar of Rosh Hashana nor during the ‘al chet’ on Yom Hakippurim,...