Paramus—If your little one is big enough for an early childhood education program, you have a decision to make: Where will you enroll your child?

It’s that time of year again when local governments around Bergen County are reviewing their 2014 municipal budgets in advance of their being introduced, discussed,

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan last week called for a proposed budget that would require a near two percent tax increase. The budget is far

Neal Hendel has journeyed from the Yeshiva of Flatbush to NYU to studying Talmud with the Rav to a Hofstra J.D. degree to picking strawberries

Manhattan—Touchdown for Teaneck! Liat Clark, an 11th grader at Ma’yanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, and DJ Wartelsky, a 6th grader from Yeshivat Noam, took

There are many reasons to believe in the divine nature of the Torah. But in the face of recent headlines, one undeniable truth stands out.

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is about the map—who gets what and how much of historic Palestine. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may well have

Twenty years ago, in February 1994, I published a lengthy cover story in The Atlantic Monthly, “The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease are

Do you practice endogamy? Are you and your spouse endogamous? Don’t worry, because before reading another local Jewish publication, I had no idea what it

Teaneck—More than 300 people packed into Congregation Rinat Yisrael recently for a program called Ancient Traditions, Modern Challenges. The audience viewed two Israeli movies about

Teaneck—People with disabilities are not patients, children, or brave souls, Chava Willig Levy told about 75 people at a fundraising reception for the Jewish Women’s

New York—Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the Yeshiva University community will celebrate the ordination of its largest class of musmakhim [ordained rabbis] at