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Magazine Feature
Rav Sholom Schwadron’s unrehearsed prayers became a staple of repentance

By Yisroel Besser

Magazine Feature
Six popular speakers put down their mics to share what it’s really like on the job, beyond the spotlight and podium

By C.S. Teitelbaum

Magazine Feature
Son and current rosh yeshivah, Rav Simcha Scheinberg, reveals the secret of his father’s drive and passion

By Rabbi Eliyahu Gut and Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky

Profiles
Drawing upon his journey from Dharamshala to Kiryat Sefer, popular educator Rabbi Yitzchak Fanger has a message about life’s meaning that speaks to a new generation of searchers

By Gedalia Guttentag

Magazine Feature
When Rav Yaakov Shlomo Friedman wound up in a DP camp faced with halachic scenarios more complex than he could ever imagine, he organized a beis din and helped survivors reestabli ...

By Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Year in Review
Scientists say the world’s magnetic field is seriously off-kilter — and I believe them. Let’s hope that 5780 is the year the world rights itself

By Gershon Burstyn

Year in Review
Yet when the scales are balanced and the book of judgment closes on the year 5779, the Jewish People are thriving

By Binyamin Rose

Year in Review
The US president wakes up to the fact that Bibi’s no longer a winner — and Trump doesn’t like losers

By Omri Nahmias

Election Special
Bibi is like the coach whose team is trailing with less than two minutes to go and has used his last timeout

By Binyamin Rose

LifeLines
If the Torah commands us, “V’shinantam l’vanecha,” it must be that every father has the ability to teach his son Torah

By C. Saphir

Outlook
We need a better answer on Rosh Hashanah to Hashem’s question of, “Who are you?”

By Yonoson Rosenblum

Story Time
All the Jewish communities were living in utter terror because of this one, atrocious sorcerer. Something had to be done, but who could fight this powerful enemy?

By Y. Bromberg

Voice in the Crowd
So as you do the math in your shul and make the same mental kabbalah as last year — to find out what nezirus Shimshon actually means before next Rosh Hashanah — here’s a story for ...

By Yisroel Besser

Out of Step
I need to rush home, do homework, go out for Chinese with Goldie, a long-standing Monday night tradition, and — sigh — apologize to Ma about not listening to her explain what happ ...

By Ariella Schiller