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

It was a spring none of us expected. Our young graduates, poised to catapult to the next stages of their lives and educations, certainly never

On December 8, 2016, Norbert Strauss joined the ranks of The Jewish Link’s regular columnists, writing under the column name “Personal History.” Since then, he

With COVID-19 impacting almost everything, the last few months have been unprecedented and challenging for virtually everyone on the planet. And it’s been all the

Like virtually all businesses, we at The Jewish Link have been terribly impacted by the onset of COVID-19 and all of its attendant restrictions and

A foundational principle of Jewish life is “do not oppress the stranger, for you know the very life of the stranger, for you were strangers