Were you as deeply moved as I was listening to Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin speak at the Democratic National Convention last Wednesday night? It was

Rabbi Moshe Kurtz, the assistant rabbi at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Connecticut, is not your ordinary Modern Orthodox rabbi. He grew up in a

In 2005, Rabbi Nati Helfgot edited a book called “Community, Covenant, and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communication,” which included many of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Chabad. They boldly go where no other Jewish organization often dares to tread. Their success at

When my wife and I first moved to Stamford, Connecticut, as a newly married couple 42 years ago, only a handful of shomer Shabbat families

The next time you are in the supermarket shopping for kosher products — and looking for the OU label or other kosher certification — you

With a terrible war raging in Israel, worldwide antisemitism on the rise, and an election year in which we are being forced to choose between

Thankfully, I am still gainfully employed … and I don’t have any immediate plans to retire. However, many folks in my age demographic have retired

When I was 12 years old, like most of the young boys in our Orthodox community, I began practicing leining my parsha for my bar

I’m very involved in planning (and often chairing) adult education programs for the two shuls in Stamford to which we belong. And over the years

Many of my friends in the Jewish community no longer read The New York Times, and given the newspaper’s biased, anti-Israel coverage since the beginning