Thoughts from Pesach to Yom HaShoah to Yom Hazikaron to Yom Ha’atzma’ut. How can we commemorate the incomprehensible, the totally unimaginable? How can we have
Over Pesach, I noticed a woman I thought was Baila Friedberg coming out of shul. “Good Yom Tov, Mrs. Friedberg.” “Good Yom Tov. However, my
This past year, I completed my thesis for an MA in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University. I was privileged to have the opportunity to research
A number of years back when Israel received a number of additional F-35 fighter planes from the United States, the following question was posed to
Was Breckinridge Long our 32nd president, rather than Franklin Roosevelt? From Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent remarks, one could erroneously conclude that it was
I’ve always been interested in the formation of various Jewish diasporas and how they rarely fit a lineral and neat narrative. I am particularly interested
Reviewing: “Setting the Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan,” by Michael J. Broyde and Shlomo C. Pill. Academic
I planted a pomegranate tree by the Jordan river Where the willows waved in the wind And the Ruby-crowned Kinglet Bowed her feathered head in
On May 15, 1967, the Israel Independence Day parade celebrating 19 years was held in Jerusalem. It was a parade with historical significance. The parade
This 3.8-mile moderate hike on the Blue Trail in the 4,315-acre Ward Pound Ridge Reservation—the largest park in Westchester County—should take about two and a
Signs have appeared on many lawns over the past year thanking the devoted “heroes” who worked diligently to get all of us through the COVID
Nowadays, so many of our accounts are accessible only online or may even be completely digital, such as cryptocurrency. Additionally, we have social media accounts
