Great Neck’s Talia Reese is performing as the opening act for the final week of Ashley Blaker’s Off Broadway run of “Strictly Unorthodox,” the first-ever

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 Zevachim 64.

The Dilemma This could be an awkward moment. The gabai at an Ashkenazi beit knesset calls a Sephardic Jew for shlishi during Mincha on a

OneFamily will be bringing a group of young women in their late teens, all of whom have been deeply affected by terror, to the tri-state

Living in New York unquestionably has benefits and drawbacks. But for high schoolers, living in New York means having to take the dreaded Regents exams.

I have always been fascinated by this root. G-Z-R in Tanach has a meaning like “cut” or “separate.” But at Esther 2:1 it has the

Do you know why we are here? Why do we go to shul? The answer should be obvious—to pray to God. But why is there

Parshat Chukat Although we often search to find a connection between the parsha and its haftarah, we have no need to wonder about Chazal’s selection

Tomorrow morning at an early hour I will be getting into our car and driving to Baltimore, Maryland. What’s in Baltimore you ask? I am

It was the flash of color on a drab bench in a crowded railway station in Taiwan that attracted Allan Schwartzbaum’s attention. Especially since it

“The Weight of Ink,” by Rachel Kadish, 2018. Mariner Books. Hardcover. Paperback, 592 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1328915788. Winner of the Assoc. of Jewish Library’s Jewish Fiction

Reviewing: “Hasidism: A New History,” by David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv, Marcin Wodzinski, Arthur Green, Princeton