It seemed totally impossible for him to come out unscathed. And yet he did. He then revealed a very narrow space, just big enough to curl into, safely out of reach of the nails.

A manicure is still not all that important to me. But I understand more about the women for whom it is – both in its presence as a basic element of personal grooming, and in its absence as an announ ...

Suddenly, during the meal, my face started itching and burning. My ears were tingling. I looked in the mirror and saw a swollen face staring back. My husband gave me Benadryl, but by the next day, I l ...

The one Kabbalistic custom we all know is cutting nails over a garbage can or toilet. People on public transit should adopt this custom!

In the end, the corkboards went up, I was relieved that the piles of paper had finally found a home, and the kids now have a new appreciation for the difference between a screw and a nail – and perh ...

How Judge Torresen’s ruling can be reconciled with the Supreme Court’s admonition about judges staying in their lane eludes us.

Michael Curtis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University, and author of the forthcoming book, Should Israel Exist? A sovereign nation under assault by the ...

Even investments, which do belong to the person in his lifetime, should ideally be divided according to the beneficiaries. Although these investments are part of his estate, since the person designate ...

I smile when I think of him now. I look at the pictures of our past with no regrets, knowing just how fortunate I was to have met this man who adored me and who opened up my world to heights and new e ...

So life went on, the years passed, my parents passed away and I was suddenly seventy-one years old. Ten months ago I got a call from my cousin that Aunt Molly was on her deathbed and asking to see me, ...

Like social skills, street smarts can be picked up naturally or they can be learned through explicit instruction.

Shmuel rules that the cheese produced by a gentile is prohibited because they commonly curdle it in the stomach of a nevelah (an animal that was not slaughtered in a kosher manner). Therefore, it is ...