Many of this paper’s readers and our friends know that our family is strongly connected to Camp HASC, as my wife and I met there
May these words of Torah serve as a merit le’iluy nishmat Menachem Mendel ben Harav Yoel David Balk, a”h. This week we learned Sanhedrin
It’s hard to believe that we are approaching the first birthday of our twin boys, Gavriel Yehuda and Michael Binyamin. As has been noted in
Selichot are already at full swing and well attended at Congregation Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck. Indeed, Sephardic Jews enjoy reciting Selichot beginning
It is routinely taken for granted that the concept of tikun olam is integral to Aleinu. It turns out that this is probably not the
Parshat Ki Tavo Throughout these post-Tisha B’Av weeks, we have emphasized the point made by Tosafot (Megilla 31b) that the words of consolation and the
How lucky we are to have the gift of the Torah and to enjoy the results of our striving to get closer to Hashem. When
We apparently own a cat, or possibly five. I don’t know. How do you take legal ownership of a cat? I ask because I don’t
Until two years ago most of us had never heard of Jo-Ann Hans. An event that took place on the corner of Westminster and New
This September, TeaneckShuls, a community email group serving shul-goers and others in the Teaneck vicinity, celebrates its 17th anniversary. Starting with only a handful of
Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Yechiel Stobezki and David Greenberg, all of Bergenfield, as well as Joshua Einhorn of Teaneck and his brother, TABC rebbe Rabbi Dovid Einhorn
Allow me to explain…I have never been a “cat person.” Growing up we had a dog for 14 years. Our beloved “Lady” died during my
