This year, at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Connecticut, where I reside, congregants had the choice of davening at one of five different minyanim on

Kudos to The Jewish Link for featuring several fine articles on the challenges and dangers that smartphones and social media pose, and to the various

This year will be my 48th consecutive year leading services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It’s a task that I don’t take lightly. In

This year, my wife and I attended no less than six local organization dinners in the four weeks after Pesach. Granted, this was an unusual

My 92-year-old mother can read an article or a book in Hebrew, and speaks a beautiful Hebrew. She is the product of a Yeshiva of

That’s our three grandchildren in the accompanying photo – Sarit Maayan, Emma Pearl, and Henry Charles—at the airport, before a recent plane trip they took

Let’s face it … most of the time that we daven, we don’t experience a real connection to God. We say the words, often letting

Brian Kriftcher was a Wall Street success. A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and St. John’s Law School (which he

A few weeks ago, a story went viral on social media … perhaps you saw it because someone shared it with you, but if not,

This month I celebrated a milestone birthday (I am now enrolled in Medicare … yup, it’s that milestone birthday!), and my wife asked me what