Question: I hired a babysitter to watch my children. Must I pay the babysitter as soon as I return? Does it make a difference if the babysitter asks for the money or not and if she is a child or an adult?

My husband is upstairs in bed, sleeping the deep sleep of a body stricken with the flu. Downstairs, my daughter’s newborn son is sleeping peacefully...

Whenever I’ve completed work on a particularly exhausting project and feel the need to “get away from it all," my husband and I do the next best thing to hopping a plane to somewhere abroad. We drive from Efrat to the Beit Shemesh train station, and hop a train to Tel Aviv.

One rainy winter night, R’ Bunim happily found shelter from a frigid downpour at an inn along his route. As the innkeeper welcomed him in and served him a hot drink, R’ Bunim glanced around and noticed that the place was bereft of customers. “How’s business these days?” he asked.

“Did I tell you what happened to me on Erev Sukkot?” my friend Atara asks me. We sit in her kitchen as she spices her salmon. Our children play outside in the Sukkah...

This past year, during the early days of the Gaza War, I traveled down South with Yad Eliezer and had the opportunity to visit with our wounded soldiers in Soroka Hospital...

Regardless of how it is characterized, man’s essential duality creates tension in his life...

Every year as the New Year approaches I find that, despite my best intentions, reality dictates that I concentrate more on the physical preparations than the spiritual ones for the holiday.