Earlier this month, my wife Sharon and I were privileged to attend Tikvah’s annual Jewish Leadership Conference. It was a star-studded event that attracted more

When we moved to Stamford in 1982, there really was a crime-ridden, unsafe area literally “on the other side of the tracks.” south of the

During the last few months of the year, I get swamped with solicitations from nonprofit organizations. Right before Rosh Hashanah I received at least two

Every so often, a story appears in the press about an Orthodox man who refuses to sit next to a woman on an airplane, demanding

Compared to Teaneck, West Hempstead and the Five Towns, Stamford has a relatively small Orthodox population (although it is growing nicely). And when Stamford folks

The 2024 election is now history, and Donald Trump is our new president-elect, with an overwhelming majority of voters supporting the Republican Party this year.

I first met Allison Josephs, founder of Jew in the City, in 2009, shortly after she started the organization that attempts to break down stereotypes

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Joseph Kaplan of Teaneck wrote a column about the upcoming election, in which he stated the following: “I

I still have two unopened boxes of disposable masks, a physical reminder of those scary COVID days. There are several COVID test packages sitting in

Like many other people, I have been regularly using ChatGPT — the artificial intelligence program that can generate human-like text in response to user prompts

One of the more enjoyable committees on which I serve is an advisory group for Nishma, which conducts research on the Orthodox Jewish community —

In a couple of weeks, we will be marking the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre. No doubt it will be a day that