The Chassidish and Chareidi World: An Unsustainable Economy and...
"Self-hating Jews are the biggest challenge to the Chareidi world." Steve Savitsky talks with Yitzhak Frankfurter, editor of Ami magazine, about Chassidic and Chareidi viewpoints on challenges facing their community.
No Place On Earth
In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis – and stays nearly a year and...
A Chareidi Woman in the IDF
"I don't care if it's 'inappropriate.' This is my dream."
You Can Be a Poet and You Didn’t Even...
Steve Savitsky interviews Pessie Horowitz about how she pursued the atypical path of poetry.
Create Your Perfect Israel Vacation Itinerary
Steve Savitsky talks with Peter Abelow, a tour-guide in Israel (among many other things), about family trip ideas in Israel.
Gebrochts: That Not-Fully-Understood Yiddish Word
Steve Savitsky interviews Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz, Rabbinic Coordinator at the OU, discussing what gebrochtz is all about.
OU/IPA Leading Effort to Secure Government Aid for Shuls...
Steve Savitsky interviews the IPA's Nathan Diament about the effort to get FEMA funding for synagogues that sustained damage in Sandy.
Kosher, Healthy…Still Delicious
Steve interviews Helen Nash about her healthy kosher cuisine that makes no compromise on taste.
“High-Tech Matchmaking Gets Rabbinic Approval”
Steve Savitsky talks with Moshe Coan about Zivug Zone, a new online dating service that " scientific research that supports 'the compatibility principle,'" creating a unique matching system that only shows...
Misconceptions About the Beth Din of America
Steve Savitsky interviews Rabbi Shlomo Weissman, Director of the Beth Din of America. Do they always try to achieve a compromise? Is it always a slow process?
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