The Best Defense
Aryeh EhrlichAccording to the Biala Rebbe of Bnei Brak, we’re a worthy generation that engages in Torah and chesed like never before
My Brother's Keeper
Gila ArnoldFor these four families of accomplished Jews, one brother brought another… and sometimes yet another, transforming teshuvah to a family affair
Biblical Proportions
Yonoson RosenblumCould Rabbi David Fohrman’s breezy style and animated videos elucidate the profoundest Torah concepts? With thousands of subscribers to Aleph Beta, the answer is obvious
Shaping Repentance from a Horn
C. S. TeitelbaumWhat’s so special about Mr. Bengio’s shofros? Why are baalei tokeia scrupulous about purchasing only Mr. Bengio’s workmanship?
Book of Records
Rabbi Eliyahu GutArnold Zweig and Hermann Struck, two Jewish officers in the German army during World War I, discovered an old-new world: the Jewish shtetl, unchanged for centuries
The Moment: Living Higher
Yisroel BesserThe numbers tattooed onto his left arm — engravings of the murders at Auschwitz — were still there. Slowly, the Rav wrapped the holy straps around them
My Snapshot Moment
Mishpacha ContributorsWhat’s your singular snapshot moment of 5777, the encounter, experience, or epiphany that will always wield a lasting impact?
Sounding the Shofar in Auschwitz
As told to Toby Orlander Thaler by Mr. Yosef HerczlAlthough Hungary was in an alliance with Germany and Italy, we were as Hungarian as our non-Jewish neighbors. Hungary would take good care of us
Lifelines: On the Books
C. SaphirIt’s one thing for a two-year-old to throw a temper tantrum, quite another for an 18-year-old to froth at the mouth that way
Cut ’n Paste: Comforting Nightmare
As told to Bryna CohenThe next day I took my tefillin, which I’d had since my bar mitzvah almost 30 years earlier, to my sofer, Reb Shua Lichtenstein
Normal Like Me: Chapter 12
Ruti KeplerBut something stopped him. A sense of isolation — that feeling that it makes no difference what you say, because no one will understand you anyway
