There were about 250 people in attendance at the Sept. 18 Out of the Darkness Community Walk and they raised nearly $20,000 for suicide prevention.
The kickoff event for Essex County’s Jewish cub scout troop was held this past Sunday. The Jewish boy scouts taught the cub scouts how to
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Bava
Devarim: 29:17 Three New Jersey rabbis sat together at the Delectable Nosherei Emporium of North Bergen (formerly the Delancey and Eldridge Market) having brunch on
Is it the threat to Israel? No. Is it worldwide anti-Semitism? No. The great tragedy destroying the Jewish people is assimilation. Some scholars believe we
It is the moment we come closest to Hashem of the entire year, the rabbi reminds the kehilla. Every year I remind our congregants of
The two different haftarot that we read on the two separate days of Rosh Hashanah focus upon two different themes of the chag. The first
Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, zt”l, the legendary rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, once spoke about the greatness of Rav Moshe Chaim Yehuda Schneider, zt”l,
The sounds of the shofar pierce the early-morning hours in shuls around the world this month. It is a clarion call to action. A wake-up
(weeklytefilahfocus.com) We recite Aleinu daily, many of us three times a day; perhaps because we have grown so accustomed to saying it, many of us
ROI (return on investment) is something that we think about routinely. Investors want to know what type of return they can expect to receive on
The shofar has always been a pivotal part of my Rosh Hashanah experience. Even when I was very young, and spent most of the day
