Pondering the state of American Jewry
An order introduced in 2016 has allowed the National Insurance Institute to provide child-support payments to over 13,000 single mothers. This order expired at the beginning of July 2021, and payments are going to be reduced come August. This is especially difficult right now being as many women were laid off from their jobs following …
Jacob Steinmetz, a 17-year-old Orthodox Jew from Long Island, is expected to be chosen in the Major League Baseball draft this Sunday. Steinmetz already won a scholarship to Fordham University and is 181 in his draft class. But can he make it in the big leagues as a Shomer Shabbos, Shomer Kashrus Yid? A graduate …
As the Delta variant of COVID-19 is contracted by more and more people in Israel, experts are suggesting that those with compromised immune systems receive a third shot as a booster. It is now clear that many of those affected by the variant have been fully vaccinated. The good news is that these cases of …