This week’s edition is our annual election edition, and as always we encourage and ask all of our readers to get out and vote this

Even most Sephardic Jews have not heard of Rav Ovadia Hedaya. Yet, Chacham Hedaya played and continues to play a crucial role in Sephardic life.

The Song of Nature Parshat Bereishit The connection of this selection to our parsha of Bereishit seems rather obvious. The opening words of this selection

We all wonder about those long lifespans recorded at the beginning of Genesis. For example, we are told that Adam lived 930 years, that Shet

One of the central actions of Yom Kippur is to admit wrongdoing as a way of achieving atonement. As we pray we detail a long

Most of us give little thought to random acts that we take for granted. Rarely are workers in stores noticed for the menial jobs that

Highlighting: “Be, Become, Bless,” By Rabbi Yaakov Nagen. Koren Publishers Jerusalem. 2019. Paperback. 350 pages. English. ISBN-13: 978-1592645275. “Be, Become, Bless: Jewish Spirituality between East

Reviewing: “The Emperors and the Jews,” by Ari Lieberman, Mosaica Press, 2019. This book is actually comprised of three different parts that are seamlessly woven

Sukkot is called zman simchatenu. There were several books I was able to read that certainly added to that simcha. The first of my reads

I really had no idea what was in store for me. It was last fall and I was on the tail end of a long

We’re all familiar with the phrase tikkun olam, acts of kindness to repair the world, but how many of us actually put the concept into

(Courtesy of Kaplen JCC) The Thurnauer School of Music invites pre-college students from New Jersey to audition for its master class featuring cellist Philippe Muller,