On Thursday, April 29, UJA-Westchester held its annual celebration honoring longtime New Rochelle residents Karen and Joseph Rafalowicz. This virtual Zoom event combined highlights of
Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel of New Rochelle is proud to present Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld on Tuesday, May 11, at 8:30
Dr. Elana Stein Hain, of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, will be the featured speaker at a Zoom presentation sponsored by the Center
(Courtesy of SAR Academy) While visiting the Bronx Jewish community, New York City mayoral candidates Eric Adams and Andrew Yang each stopped by SAR Academy
Rabbi Sacks, zt’’l, had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book Lessons in Leadership. In the final parsha
It has been a week of tears and of numbness. Every time I read the list of 45 I become dizzy and faint, wincing in
Nakdimon ben Gurion triggered a fantastic miracle! The Gemara (Ta’anit 19b-20a) describes how Nakdimon cried out to Hashem in desperate times to demonstrate that Hashem
Levi was a student in Yeshiva Kol Torah in Eretz Yisrael. Alas, Levi made some bad choices, adopted some regrettable behaviors, and was duly warned.
אם בחוקותי תלכו—“If you will go in my statutes.” Rashi explains this is a reference to “toiling in Torah” [“שתהיו עמלים בתורה”]. Why doesn’t the
The Beraita tells us in Masechet Megillah, “Rabbi Shimon Ben Elazar said: Ezra enacted that the Jews should read the tochacha (rebuke) in Bechukotai two
Reviewing: “The Zionist Ideas” by Gil Troy. Jewish Publication Society. 2018. English. Paperback. 608 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0827612556. One of the most interesting books I ever
We are about to observe the secular holiday of Mother’s Day. To some it is only a Hallmark card tradition. To others it is a
