It’s with great joy that many on our staff have been able to participate in and be recipients of even more pictures and videos of the many festive outdoor Chanukah events this year, in virtually every community we represent. We hope that all celebrations will continue with great joy, safety and security throughout the weekend.

Did you pick up your copy of The Jewish Link in South Florida last week? If not, make sure to check it out this week, pictured here at Aroma Market.

The photos and videos on social media about the kind, good, love-filled life of Eliyahu David Kay, HY”D, are searing. Taken in a terror attack in the Old City this past Sunday, this smiling 26-year-old South African Jew was clearly loved by a huge family and a strong fiancée, Jen Schiff. Now he is loved, heartbreakingly, by all who love

I got my traditional pre-Chanukah call from Rabbi Kanelsky of Bris Avrohom this past Sunday night. He was calling to invite me to participate in my annual trip to join him on one of the 141 menorah lightings that he does throughout the tristate area in public locations and areas such as all our local airports,

Pardon the millennial-speak of “influencers,” but we mean it not in a digital way, but in an IRL (in real life) way. It’s not that the Jewish community voted together as a block for a slate of candidates; it’s that we voted.

At press time, the outcomes of many races had yet to even be called. But

I write this on Tuesday with my wife having just gotten up from sitting shiva for my father-in-law Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Glick. It has been a challenging week on many levels and a completely exhausting and draining one for my wife, her siblings and, most of all, my mother-in-law. Although I wasn’t there for all hours of the shiva, as I did

I read recently that rabbis, in particular, are dealing this fall with unprecedented mental health crises in their communities, as many of their congregants deal with myriad family losses. These are attributed, both directly or indirectly, to the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, no one is surprised by this, as none of us have been spared from

The Jewish Link mourns the passing of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Glick of Bergenfield. An early supporter and incisive writer for The Jewish Link, Rabbi Glick was one of our own, though firstly he was the husband of our own beloved contributing editor Nina Glick. A musmach of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological

I write this piece pretty late on our deadline day—as is my custom lately—but I felt I had to share a bit about the past few days and the first non-Yom Tov-filled week since late August.

Please don’t misunderstand me—the yom tovim were all very special and beautiful, but as I and our staff know,

It seems fitting that we are publishing our 400th issue on Parshat Bereshit, because it feels that just as we achieve one milestone—that of reaching the heights of the Yomim Noraim with Simchat Torah—that it is time to begin again. On to the next 400 issues, as our colleague Jill Kirsch writes on page 15.

It’s hard to believe that after starting just a few short years ago back in 2013 (no, The Jewish Link has certainly not been around for generations, we promise), we have reached the milestone of our 400th edition. Of the two of us, it was Mendy, a natural numbers and finance guy among other things, who first realized back in the early

After a year much more isolated, thank God, we’re back to and prepping our beautiful sukkot, readying ourselves to enjoy sukkah hopping, ushpizin, posters of the Kotel and putting up our own personal art galleries made by generations of children. We’re ready to hear our childrens’ and grandchildrens’ gasps at the strings of lights