Englewood, Tenafly, Paramus and Teaneck events planned Congregation Ahavath Torah of Englewood, in cooperation with East Hill Synagogue, Kol HaNeshama and Kehilat Kesher, is holding
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One of the biggest challenges I have as a teacher and parent is motivating young people to sing and dance as they rejoice on Shabbat
An old saw about American Catholics of the 1970s and ’80s had it that “Catholics could not figure out whether they were Joe McCarthy or
Tefillah, prayer, is the heart and soul of a Jew connecting to Hashem. But it is a script that’s hard to follow for someone with
Spring came to my mother’s little village. Flowers were in bloom, the grass smelled sweet and fresh. Fruits were ripe for the picking. There was
The date May 4th, 1945 will forever be etched in their memories, and now it will be forever etched in ours. That fateful day toward
Perhaps the most fascinating halakha associated with the rabbinic commandment of daled kosot is mentioned in the first Mishna in Arvei Pesachim. The Mishnah (99b)
The drive from Montreal to Teaneck takes approximately six hours. We did it all the time—often one of us made the drive alone, taking a
We know that life presents itself on two levels. There is our regular, everyday level—the level we see, the level of things as they seem
Moshe Baran is not your run-of-the-mill 92-year-old. A retired real estate manager, Moshe has the distinction of being a Holocaust survivor and one of a
In honor Of Obama’s visit to Israel, a local Modiin newspaper was writing a story on “American phenomena” in Modiin. I was called by the
