Interviews and Profiles

Roy tried to fill that void with meaning by volunteering for the usual causes du jour, but the frail set of values that he lived by always seemed to collapse upon deep reflection.

In his store, customers are asked to wear masks and stay six feet away from each other.

Rav Maimon spoke with a directness that Ben-Gurion admired. In addition to his erudition in Torah, he had a vast knowledge of secular subjects as well.

To foil his plan, the Jewish slaves who carried the menorah, upon crossing the Tiber River, threw it off the bridge, where it remains to this day buried in the muddy depths of the river.

“After 1967, Rabbi Twersky and Rav Soloveitchik ate breakfast, lunch, and supper together three days a week, spent Shabbasos together, and formally had chavrusa time together.”

The doctor has precedence. A king does not have precedence over a doctor who can save the lives of many others.

My mother believed in the pinteleh Yid that exists in every Jew. And she would never ever, ever allow herself, or anyone else, to give up hope on any neshamah.

Interview with Rabbi Yitzhak Gelbstein, head of the General Chevra Kadisha Society in Jerusalem.

Eating disorders often thrive in secrecy, preventing other people from noticing odd behaviors and challenging them.

The other ancient, sealed gates of Har HaBayit are composed of thick barricades of mud and stone, but the five-meter-high Wilson’s Gate crumpled into dust after a few hours of ardent sledgehammering.

Bibi and Bennett knew what the outcome would be, and rejected us and our constituents anyway.

I had the honor to stand beside him as he reached this mountain peak in his life.

Tzipi spends hours with parents, holding hands and offering both solace and a listening ear.

Glanz offers a unique service with zero competition. She helps her clients make Israel's bureaucracy work for them instead of against them.

What Bibi hasn’t done to advance building in Yesha and Jerusalem for the past 10 years, he is frantically doing now before the elections to draw more votes from the Right to Likud.

The cops I talk to see the worst of underclass behavior, but they fervently believe they’re supported by the good people in the community and continue to work on their behalf.

The swarming type that devour everything in their path are called locusts of the desert. They visited us in Israel a few years ago, which gave us an opportunity to study and eat them.

The Kashuela Farm was founded on May 24, 2012. It is named after Yaakov Zarchi, a Palmach fighter whose nickname was Kashuela.

I’ve always loved stories of Jewish bravery, especially under very difficult conditions. Tales of Jews who guarded the mitzvos, even when it seemed impossible, I’ve always found very inspiring.

Two-hundred years ago, a famine wiped out a third of the community and another third were forced to adopt Christianity.

I think the inability to either charge or hold [someone for] crimes that people might view as petty crimes is going to lead to a deterioration of conditions in neighborhoods.

The people who speak about a halachic state don’t know what they’re talking about.

On a national level, I saw that the settlement movement was put on freeze and that the integrity of the Jewish state and the Torah were being threatened by the spread of liberalism, especially in the Religious Zionist camp.

BDS poisons herbs.

Overnight, the Arabs and Bedouins erect a few tents and shacks on a piece of deserted land, then claim that their grandparents lived there for hundreds of years.

The Yalkut Shemoni says that the year Mashiach comes, the Iranians will wreak great havoc in the world.

Hidden away in the storage room, Shmuel Aryeh's Torah school survived the worst pogrom Europe had ever seen.

The writing must be for the sake of the mitzvah, and kavanah is especially required when writing the names of Hashem.

If somebody reads that Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs than people of Scots-Irish descent – and I speak as a Scots-Irish person – and they feel resentful, that’s their problem.

Those of us who engage in the pursuit of factual accuracy do so out of love.