In the 1980s and 1990s, the Young Israel of Woodmere experienced tremendous growth, regularly attracting more than 700 people to the main services in the

Deep in the bowels of the unfinished area of our basement is a group of six huge plastic containers. They contain the 500-plus record albums

This past Simchat Torah, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, the president of the World Mizrachi movement, composed a series of individual hakafot prayers that attempted to

There are more than a dozen communities in Long Island today where Orthodox Jews can take advantage of a plethora of shuls, day schools, and

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