(Courtesy of Valley Chabad) On Sunday, March 10, Valley Chabad’s Friendship Circle spent a day of giving at the Veterans Home in Paramus. Over 50
Congregation Beth Shalom of Teaneck held a fun Motzei Shabbat Paint With Me! event. Congregation Beth Shalom members met their inner artist and all ages
Throughout the decades of my genealogy research, there have been a few cousins with exceptionally common names (think Cohen, Friedman…), making them more of a
Shabbat HaGadol/Parshat Metzora Over the years, we have struggled to understand why this selection from the navi Malachi, the very final words of the last
The Mishnah in the 10th chapter of Pesacḥim includes a set of Ma Nishtana. If one opens a standard Babylonian Talmud (Pesacḥim 116a), one sees
Shabbat Hagadol plays a colorful role in the rich heritage of the Pesach holiday. At the heart of the Shabbat Hagadol experience lies a distinctive
When we observe one of the consequences the metzora faces, at first glance it doesn’t seem like it’s that bad, although his sin of evil
The Shabbos before Pesach is called Shabbos Hagadol, the great or large Shabbos. How is this Shabbos different from every other Shabbos? At a bris,
Four years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition titled “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire.” The exhibit was focused on
A week ago, the Jewish people welcomed Chodesh Nisan, an auspicious time of year and a month replete with themes of redemption and the Passover
Editor’s note: The below was written originally on Facebook in honor of the Yudins’ fifty years of service to Fair Lawn’s Congregation Shomrei Torah. Get
We are amazed by the fact that we celebrated the bris of our 13th great-grandchild this past Shabbat in Chicago. It is almost as difficult
