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Jun 10, 2026, 4:12 AM

Nobu – An Empire Beyond Sushi

With Drew Nieporent in Nobu downtown Manhattan (photo: Liat Valter)

A visit to New York also means gastronomy. For me, among the city’s endless attractions, it became a walk down memory lane to meet Drew Nieporent - one of New York’s most influential restaurateurs and a pioneer of modern hospitality. Nieporent, who...

Jun 9, 2026, 10:04 AM

A Giant Leap: Lunar Landing and Legal Impossibility

Hatzofe, Friday 25 July 1969 (Historical Jewish Press, https://www.nli.org.il/he/discover/newspapers/jpress)

On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module successfully landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong, followed by Buzz Aldrin, became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. As Armstrong stepped out of the spacecraft, he famously...

Jun 4, 2026, 11:27 PM

For Father’s Day: My Dad’s Life of Curiosity and Hospitality

The author's family photographed in 1968: Steven, Michele, Dorothy, Janet, Howard Braun. Photo courtesy of the author.

My father really enjoyed Hadassah Magazine. As a dyslexic, he read slowly and also very carefully. As an intelligent individual, he had a significant vocabulary and particularly appreciated well-written and well-thought-out articles. I suspect he read each issue more...

Jun 4, 2026, 8:03 PM

The Heavenly Horizon: A Spaceman’s Shabbat

Rabbi David Shloush, 2008 (Wikipedia, https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:Rabi_david_shloush.jpeg, Public Domain)

On 1 April 2026 – the eve of Passover 5786 – NASA launched a crewed spacecraft on a flyby trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. This was the first crewed flight near the Moon since Apollo 17...

Jun 3, 2026, 9:19 PM

Micros and Macros in Chelsea, New York

Walking peacefully through Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood this spring, I felt unexpectedly content. A melody kept following me: “I want you, I want you…” That romantic song by Bob Dylan had always embodied New York for me. Yet this visit felt far more...

Jun 1, 2026, 2:51 PM

An Afternoon in Kathmandu

I had a small small talk with a short barista with a lovely huge smile in a cafe in Central Kathmandu yesterday. He asked me: “Chai, good?” I was quite in my own world, but I was pleasantly surprised...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

May 25, 2026, 7:40 PM

What is considered to be far from Jerusalem?

In Parshat Behaalotcha (Bamidbar 9:9-13), we read about those who are granted the opportunity to observe Pesach Sheni: God spoke to Moshe saying: “Speak to B’nai Yisrael, saying: Any person, if he will be impure from a human corpse or...

May 21, 2026, 10:14 AM

Allyship won’t flirt with you from across the bar

Adapted meme based on a scene from Sex and the City (HBO), included here for cultural commentary.

Spanish Guy and I walked out of a bar on Valencia Street, hands brushing, almost holding. I like a guy to make the first move. The sounds of percussion instruments growing louder surprised us as we made our way...

May 18, 2026, 6:38 PM

Baltimore: Actually, I Like It

For decades, Baltimore carried a reputation many Americans knew long before ever setting foot there. Crime headlines, abandoned factories, and political scandals painted the city as a symbol of urban struggle. By the 1990s, Baltimore’s once-powerful port economy had...

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