Part 7 (Continued from last week) The sun was shining brightly through the only window in the wall. The room was very large and bare.

For many years my corporate career took me into Manhattan five days a week. I spent countless hours on the 7:00 a.m. Community Coach bus,

After having attended the sentencing of Anthony Graziano and Aakash Dalal on Friday, we spent much of the weekend discussing the horror of what we

Editor’s note: The following is the text of a speech that was delivered at Congregation Shaare Tefila at the special seudah shlishit honoring four shul

The road from Vernon, New Jersey, to Glen Spey, New York, was dotted with pink last week when 219 women cycled their way from the

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

I’m not generally big on texting. I basically just text my wife across the house when I don’t want to yell the same thing up

Reviewing “Genesis: From Creation to Covenant,” by Zvi Grumet. Maggid Books. Hardcover, 510 pages, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1-59264-477-3. It was clear the moment I opened Rav

Reviewing: “Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust,” by Mordecai Paldiel. The Jewish Publication Society. Hardcover. 636 pages. 2017. ISBN-10: 0827612613. Dr. Mordecai Paldiel

Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi

Our daughter Miriam has a friend named Naomi who was always considered the class queen. I know that might sound bad, but let’s face it.

Dear Shoshy, I recently went on a first date with a boy and left the date feeling unsure how to proceed. I generally go on