Laura taking photographs in New Jersey for the Jewish Life Photo Bank, which has since been named in her memory. Laura Ben-David left us on July 17, at only 56 years old, after a battle with ovarian ...

A rebbi in a yeshiva wrote the following letter: A talmid of mine would continuously speak to me negatively of his father. He complained that his father didn’t care about him and thought very little ...

You see your date’s internal beauty and you are not bothered by a lack of the typical commercial good looks we are taught to value. But you worry that you will be influenced by the subtle judgment y ...

How contemporary the Gemara rings when it says the destruction of Yerushalayim puzzled and perplexed the sages, prophets, and angels! It shouldn’t cause us any wonder that we are unable to explain t ...

During the Nine Days – a period devoted to mourning our national tragedies – we also give space to consider the personal dimensions of loss and fragility. For this reason, there’s a minhag to spend ...

The suggestion that Einstein be invited to assume the presidency of the Jewish State was first publicly disseminated by the evening newspaper Maariv. The idea, which spread quickly, became broadly pop ...

Psychologically and sociologically, a conspiracy need not involve maniacal villains plotting world control. It can be an unconscious collusion of interests.