First cousins David Silberman and Jared Eisenberger of Englewood, born eight days apart, shared their bar mitzvah at Congregation Ahavath Torah on Shabbos Parshas Shemini,
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Judy Heicklen, daughter of Susan Heicklen of Teaneck and Julian Heicklen of Jerusalem and Rabbi Neil Schuman, son of Larry Schuman of Plainview and Harriet
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Bava Batra
Two articles in your September 9 issue left me somewhat dissatisfied: “Why Some Choose to Be Religious and Others Do Not” by Rabbi Haim Jachter;
Those who have visited both Sephardic and Ashkenazic batei knesset know that there are some differences in their content and style. While the core is
I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change
One can’t help but wonder what is so significant about the number seven that Hashem makes it so relevant to cycles of time: the seven-day
When I learned in yeshiva in Israel some 25 years ago, I was told by a native Israeli that if one wants to get the
Today’s haftarah reading does not focus upon the first parsha, Behar, which discusses the laws of Shemita, Yovel and land ownership in Israel. Instead, the
We’re a generation obsessed with narrating our life’s story. Everyone seems to be constantly trying to capture the moment, to share their story with friends
Marta Felberbaum, by all appearances an ordinary woman, was anything but ordinary. Felberbaum, who passed away on April 7 of this year, was born in
