Little by little political correctness has taken over our culture and our language. In some communities, manholes have been renamed “personnel access units” to avoid offending women. more

We will do our best to hand our enemies a great defeat, by becoming even more united. Three boys. Three worlds. Three families. Three mothers broken. Three empty chairs. So many dreams lost. Forever. There are simply no words to describe the depths of our pain and sense of loss. more

In the beginning of Chapter 21, the Torah tells how an encounter with the Canaanites of the Negev concluded with the capture of a single captive – who Rashi identifies as a maidservant. more

Ask any Israeli soldier who served in the armored corps what part of his army service he hated the most, and he will answer unequivocally “tipul shvui,” the weekly tank inspection. more

My grandparents really knew how to cook. It seems to me that everyone born in “the Old Country” (in this case, Transylvania) was born with built-in cooking intuition. Somehow they could create the most scrumptious meals using no fancy equipment, and not even measuring spoons. more

I don’t often ask my husband Jerry to shop for me. When I go shopping, I buy items that we actually need. Jerry, on the other hand, buys whatever is on sale, whether we need it or not. more

They are three boys — our sons, our brothers. They give back to their communities, work with kids, are good students, enjoy music and sports. They were heading home for Shabbat from school, two of them left school earlier to study for tests. They were going home, but instead they were kidnapped. And now — where are they? What is happening to them? Who could steal three innocent young kids? more

Kozhnitzer Maggid was known to be a pursuer of peace. It happened that a terrible fight broke out amongst the Jews living in a city close to Kozhnitz, which caused some kind of “breakaway” in the community. more

This has been a difficult week. Three of our sons, Yaakov, Gilad and Eyal have been missing since Thursday night and despite the best efforts of the Israeli army, the police, the intelligence community, and rescue units, we seem no nearer to learning their whereabouts. more

He came to America, unknown and without a job, fleeing the Nazi tyranny in Europe. He was highly educated, deeply religious and heir to a spiritual legacy that was within his lifetime to redefine religious outreach to great heights. more