About a decade ago, as part of our community growth effort in Stamford, we decided to survey a sizable number of young families who were

When I was in grade school, I was a huge baseball fan—and like thousands of other youngsters my age, I dreamed of becoming a professional

My 92-year-old mother received her absentee ballot in the mail last week, and proudly voted in the upcoming election. She has cast her ballot in

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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

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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