The pandemic continues to take its toll on all of us, but one thing remains clear: our community’s children must continue their education. For Jews,

In the mid-2000s I lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, at the corner of 80th and Amsterdam. Giuliani’s New York, which was characterized by aggressive

“Mommy, are people still wearing masks?” This was the first question our youngest son asked when he got off the bus this past week after

It’s been an astounding, shocking, frightening 157 days. Daf Yomi learners began Masechet Shabbat, the second book in the 14th Daf Yomi cycle, on March

Last week, Teaneck resident and mom Margot Kagan was assaulted at the Staples store in Hackensack, when she asked a fellow store patron to pull

I have long felt that in addition to being a talmid chacham, the next best and most critical quality for a rabbi to have is

As day camps enter their second week, and some of our community’s children head off to sleepaway camps, we pray that each day will bring

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), founded in 1998 by former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, is an organization that has done a singular and

Some leaders are born, not elected. Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin has served on Teaneck’s town council for 12 years, and is finishing his eighth year as

In my 20s and early 30s, before I had kids tumbling in, metaphorically—and sometimes actually—clanging cymbals and shaking me awake before I had time to

The coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdowns and stay-at-home orders upended life as we know it. Yet, as always, our community pulled together. Now, as we

It seems that the more letters we print this summer, the more we receive the following week. For now, we are continuing our policy of