Twenty-five years ago this week, a three-decades-long affiliation with the U.S. Air Force came to an end for Col. Peter Berkowsky of Livingston. Here is

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I believe that I made a grave mistake in my column last week. I have been told that it gave a different message to some

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A couple of years ago, we hosted a guest for a Shabbos meal. At the end, we passed around benchers for Birkas Hamazon from our

In the winter of 2016, I went with our oldest son Shalom to Eretz Yisroel in honor of his bar mitzvah. While there we had

Second Day Of Shavuot Shavuot. “Z’man Matan Torateinu.” And, given that we see these days as the time when we received the Torah’s laws, (when