My wife, Lisa, and I came up to Sharon, Massachusetts, during the summers to spend two weeks with our daughter DeDe, son-in-law Yaakov and our
There is just so much going on around the world that it is sometimes easy to overlook milestones of historic impact. That’s what occurred earlier
Otto Warmbier. I can’t get this tragedy out of my head. There’s been more than our fair share of the horrific multiple shootings, where mass
lt is perhaps inarguable that for most Orthodox Jewish parents, the path for their children is to get an education, meet the “right” person, get
It isn’t the super-sized Jewish experience of New York City or some of its suburbs. But for an observant Jew living in New York State’s
This week we learn of the unthinkable use of chlorine gas as a weapon against Syrians as the Bashar al-Assad regime reaches yet another level
Washington, DC—In a Verizon Center that is more accustomed to superstar athletes ripping ice hockey slap shots and draining basketball jumpers, Vice President Mike Pence
The recent dramatic rise in threats to Jewish organizations across North America has had a familiar ominous feel for Assemblyman Gordon Johnson (D-Bergen). The assemblyman
“A Toast to Life” is the title of one of Leon Lissek’s cantorial CDs. The title could not be more appropriate as Cantor Lissek battles
If a component of highly educated, scholarly readers from the Orthodox community ever felt underserved for fresh, enlightening, sophisticated long-form writing, a relatively new website
Recently, I attended a conference for Jewish educators in Fort Lee. Sponsored by Avi Chai and the Schusterman Foundations, we were being trained to help
Leaving the Christmas-focused lights, wreaths, trees and crowded malls of America and then walking the streets of Jerusalem is like going from artificial flavoring to
