Allow us to introduce ourselves. My name is Gershon Distenfeld and for the past several years I have been heavily involved in efforts to make
So let me get this straight- the current schools are bad and expensive. Kids don’t feel engaged- they told you so. And they don’t like
In the last number of years there has been great media and literary attention paid to the phenomenon of members of the Haredi community who
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Jan Karski. Credit: Courtesy of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. Seventy years ago this month, on July 28, an eyewitness to the
As a rule, Jews should have little interest in the canonization process of Roman Catholic saints. We don’t worship saints, we revere the righteous, yet
“It is the best Yom Tov gift that I could have gotten!” That is the way one prominent talmid chacham expressed his joy at the
Consider the following exchange between Jack and his mother: Jack:I would really like to go to Brian’s house for a sleepover. A few other kids
Dear Rabbi Sam, I am a single mom with two teenage sons, ages 15 and 18. My problem is that my oldest son who only
Summer is a great opportunity for parents and children to spend time together without having to worry about completing homework. This time can be spent
I did not go to sleep away camp. Well, truthfully, my parents sent me once. It was the summer after eighth grade, when apparently girls
In the early stages of my parenting, when my first child was a young baby, I recall waiting in the pediatrician’s office in our former
