On Motzei Simchat Torah 5784, we had an apprehensive meeting of our administrators. What should we say to our students and faculty? What could one

(Courtesy of Yad Leah) Sofi Glatt, from West Orange, a seventh grader at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy, recently celebrated her bat mitzvah at Yad Leah.

A few months ago, I received a phone call from a Jewish woman from Poland inviting me to come to Lodz, Poland to conduct prayers

One of the most important symbols of Judaism representing one’s cerebral and physical commitment to Judaism and Jewish practice is the tefillin. These leather boxes

It was a mystery to me—from one day being ready to blow shofar to the next day being unable to produce a reasonable sound—and this

Every one of us has experienced periods in our lifetime where we thought that time would never move on. Some things are totally ridiculous in

On January 28, 2023, an arsonist threw a molotov cocktail at a synagogue in Bloomfield, New Jersey. In Montclair, New Jersey a swastika was found

Rabbi Berel Wein spoke these very words at Beth Israel Congregation in Miami Beach in June 1967. Of course, he was referring to the annihilation

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the City University of New York (CUNY) to implement 13 actions recommended in a comprehensive report prepared in response

The professor works to uphold Jewish civil rights at Columbia University and beyond. Jewish Link staff member and current Columbia University student Eliana Birman recently