By Surela Spielman If you were to name one food you feel the Chanukah industry is missing, would latke ices come to mind? If you would want to innovate one…
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Flickering Flames
By Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein White, yellow, red, blue… a flame flickers and leaps up, as though trying to break free from the wick and oil that fuel its dance. There…
IT’S GREEK TO ME: Meet Professor Asher J. Matathias
As Told to ESTY MENDLOWITZ Jews have lived a problematic existence in Greece for over 2,000 years, sustaining their most devastating destruction during humanity’s flight from sanity: The Holocaust. Prof.…
Spy Games
By TOBY ORLANDER THALER As the flames of the menorah do their dance, sizzling on their cork pods, giving off a faint olive-oil scent, mingling with the aroma of freshly…
Dr. ‘Shabbos’ Friedman – Fighting for Torah and Mitzvah Observance in the New World
By DINI HARRIS “Anyone immigrating to America is a sinner, because in America the Talmud is trodden underfoot. It was not only home that many Jews left behind in Europe,…
Light Up the Night
By CHASIDA TEICHMAN The young couple got married in November, and they were scheduled to fly to Eretz Yisrael shortly afterward to start their married life in the holiest of…
Excerpts From a Conversation With Harav Dov Yaffe, Zt”l, About His Rebbi, the Chazon Ish, Zt”l
BY RABBI TUVIA FREUND Four years ago, the Mashgiach, Harav Dov Yaffe, zt”l, who passed away several weeks ago, spoke to Hamodia about his personal experiences and interactions with the…
Treasures Revealed: The Publication of a Manuscript of Harav Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Zt”l
BY RAFAEL HOFFMAN Almost 80 years after the petirah of Harav Baruch Ber Leibowitz, zt”l, and over 50 years since the publication of the last editions of his sefer, Birkas…
Stanley Fishkind, Reaching for the Stars
BY MARGIE PENSAK Baltimore native Stanley Fishkind is so down-to-earth, it is ironic that he reached for the stars — literally and figuratively — and accomplished it! For two decades,…
CHANGING SEASONS: Life Often Veers From the Predictable
BY BELLA STEIN When I was younger, I idolized my older brother, who is two and half years older than I. He was my absolute hero. I remember playing…
The Printers’ Feud and the Burning of the Talmud
By Rabbi Akiva Aaronson Like the people to whom it belongs, the Talmud has been persecuted through the years. One of the most infamous attacks took place at…
The Pshevorsker Rebbes in Aix-les-Bains
By Nechama Goldberger In conjunction with the yahrtzeit of the revered Reb Yankele of Pshevorsk (the Admor Harav Yaakov Leiser) on 27 Cheshvan, Inyan presents a personal reminiscence of the…
How the World Celebrated the Shabbos Project
By MARGIE PENSAK On Shabbos Parashas Lech Lecha, Jews from all walks of life, stripes, ages, and stages — living everywhere from megalopolises to towns in far-flung corners of the…
Zeidie Zyshe’s Legacy
Most children of Holocaust survivors had no understanding of what their parents lived through. After enduring atrocities beyond human comprehension, they were catapulted into a world completely alien. Older survivors…
Great Expectations, Great Achievements, Great Wildebeest Migration
By Dini Harris Parents dangle prizes in front of their children to encourage success and growth. Candies and a dime satisfy small children with small accomplishments. Older children with bigger…
Menachem Herman and the Happy Strings of Gratitude
By Rabbi Nachman Seltzer Diaspora Yeshiva band was iconic in its day — a product of the baal teshuvah movement and a catalyst for many who drew closer to…
Keeping Alive A Rich Legacy: An Interview With Reb Yisrael Szpilman, Director of the Historic Beis Hachaim in Warsaw
By Shia Eilen During a recent visit to New York, Reb Yisrael Szpilman spoke with Inyan about the Beis Hachaim, his work, and his personal reflections as an observant…
The Ohr Hachaim
By Rabbi Y.Y. Rubinstein It is an old debate whether a man is shaped by his times or a man shapes the times he lives in. But it is only…
Not Just Compromise: A Unique Mediation Method for Effecting Peace
By Malkie Schulman Professor Robert A. Baruch Bush is a law professor at Hofstra University Law School in New York who teaches a mediation technique called transformative mediation. A cofounder…
Escape from Mir: Alternate Hashgachah
By C. Rosenberg When you hear the words “escape from Mir,” if you know anything about Jewish history during World War II, you probably think of Shanghai. For Rav Elchonon…