The Supreme Court has vacated Washington for its summer recess, but not before turning the time-honored definition of marriage on its head.
You may call it “the country” but for a small segment of the frum population, it’s home. What’s it like for them when their quiet towns become flooded with fellow Jews?
On the outside, I looked like a typical obese woman — someone who people assumed just couldn’t control herself. Inside, I was a woman struggling with an incurable disorder and infertility. And while it was true I was overeating, nobody knew about my out-of-whack endocrine system and how it was creating chaos in my body.
Rachelle Fraenkel’s unflinching faith in the face of a parent’s worst nightmare gave strength to an entire nation.
In 2015, America’s Supreme Court knocked down Ari Zivotofsky’s campaign to affirm his son’s birthplace. Ari Z retraces his tireless battle
He’s incurred the wrath of Congressional liberals, and even faced down death threats. But political foes never ruffled Michael Mukasey, former US Attorney General and past chief judge of Manhattan’s federal courts — the only observant Jew ever to hold either post. Yet it wasn’t all opposition, like when President Bush “put his arm around my shoulder and told me I had real guts.”
