The root shin-nun-heh has two meanings in Tanach. On the one hand, it means “to repeat.” (Of course, the word sheni, second, comes from this

In Masechet Rosh Hashanah, Tu B’Shevat marks the beginning of the year for trees, assigning a starting point along a cycle of the natural world.

Upon reading this morning’s haftarah, one finds the connection to our parsha quite obvious. Just as the Torah reading included the Israelites’ great song of

I will never forget the conversation in the hallway. It came at one of the most traumatic moments of my life. Only a few minutes

RCA and OU In October 2015, the Rabbinical Council of America issued a resolution (that I sponsored), setting that its members may not ordain women

The Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 1,854 feet above the Nizhu river in southwest China, is currently the highest bridge in the world. The $150 million crossing

A recent Letter to the Editor concerning the poor reading ability of students at a particular day school generated quite an online kerfuffle. Let me

Torah Cards, once almost as ubiquitous in Jewish day schools as Cabbage Patch Dolls were for the general market, are celebrating their quarter-century anniversary this

There are many who commented to us at our grandson’s bar mitzvah that we absolutely must write about the fact that Congregation Beth Abraham needed

OK, @Jlinknj fans! We have caved to popular demand and are starting a Mazel Tov section in our monthly Simcha Link! Do you have a

It was in the fall of 2014 when Jake Rabinowitz, a longtime resident of Washburn Street, noticed that his Teaneck backyard was drier than in

“From where the feet grow,” “fuhn vonnen di feese vahxen.” An old Yiddish expression, a colloquialism, meaning to find the source or origin of things.