Ahavas Achim University will host Rabbi Menachem Penner as scholar-in-residence on Shabbat, November 10-11. Rabbi Penner, dean of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,
Join Congregation Ahavas Achim on Shabbat, December 15-16, for a musical Shabbat Chanukah featuring the Maccabeats. There will be a menorah lighting, followed by kabbalat
The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Central Jersey (GCCJ) will be on Thursday, November 9, at 7 p.m. at Ahavas Achim Synagogue, 216
The Israeli tech and innovation fair is better known as Start-Up Nation Technology Fair, a traveling exhibition that will be hosting an event locally at
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 Sanhedrin
Bereishit 21:9-21 This was not destined to be a fast trip. If they had gone nonstop, the journey from their home in New Milford to
There’s a concept brought down in Eruvin 31 that mitzvot lav lehanot nitnu, mitzvot were not given for pleasure. Yet Rashi explains that when God
Part II Very recently, an Ashkenazic woman approached me, recounting what she perceived to be a bizarre incident. She was a guest at a Sephardic
Among the ancient texts found in the Dead Sea region are both biblical and non-biblical texts. In this column, I am going to focus on
This week, Mesivta Ohr Naftali of New Windsor, New York, where I am privileged to serve as general studies principal each afternoon, celebrated a special
Shabbat Parshat Lech Lecha 5778 After Yom Kippur, a young man approached me to thank me for what he said was truly “an inspirational service.”
Everyone would love to be trained by the best experts, be it in school, college, work or yeshiva. People pay top dollar and even intern
