Rabbi Noam Shimon Cohen, director of Chabad of Ocean City, Maryland, loves it when Memorial Day ushers in the busy summer season at this coastal
In the spring of 2004, a color guard honored Sam Cohen, my deceased father-in-law, with a somber, dignified salute. Sgt. Samuel Cohen served in a
If you could choose one attribute of contemporary Modern Orthodoxy to amplify, what would it be? Conversely, if you had the power to change one
If Moshe had an iPhone or Android during the exodus from Mitzraim, perhaps he would have used the Waze App and delivered the Jewish people
Nobody I know planned more meticulously for Pesach than Shirley Cohen, my mother-in-law. Working backward from the date of the first seder, food would be
So am I going to be a bad person if I tell you something you don’t necessarily want to hear? Coming from socialist summer camps
A short few weeks ago, close friends Scott and Helayne Ference came over for a Shabbos lunch. They brought with them Scott’s nephew Tzvi Yehezkel
There is something special about a parent or a grandparent seeing their dreams of a happy, secure, confident child or grandchild emerge from a journey
For many years, my wife, Lisa, and I have had a hand-painted floral wooden Shabbos and Yom Tov challah cutting board with a clear plastic
Baltimore is about 200 miles from Teaneck and will take about four hours of travel by car. According to the community’s 2010 population survey, some
Local mental health professionals and volunteers talk about the need to rid the Jewish community of any stigma connected to mental health. Suicide is not
For those Modern Orthodox Jews who visit New England for a vacation or even a day trip, there’s a town association test we’d like to
