For many years my corporate career took me into Manhattan five days a week. I spent countless hours on the 7:00 a.m. Community Coach bus, many times getting home as late as 8:30 p.m. My day started at 4:45 a.m. as I crawled out of bed to jump on the treadmill (ok, let’s be honest, crawlon the treadmill) to get a decent

After having attended the sentencing of Anthony Graziano and Aakash Dalal on Friday, we spent much of the weekend discussing the horror of what we saw and heard. (Apologies to those who practically heard nothing because the judge did not use the microphone.) As Nina sat just feet away from the door that the prisoners used to enter

Editor’s note: The following is the text of a speech that was delivered at Congregation Shaare Tefila at the special seudah shlishit honoring four shul families who will be making aliyah on August 14.

True story. I was in Home Depot last week purchasing another set of Rubbermaid

The road from Vernon, New Jersey, to Glen Spey, New York, was dotted with pink last week when 219 women cycled their way from the Minerals Spa and Resort to Camp Simcha Special as part of the 2017 Tour de Simcha. Among those riding from Bergen County were Freeda Muller, Tova Gerson, Bibi Pavel and Eva Rothberg.

My wife, Lisa, and I came up to Sharon, Massachusetts, during the summers to spend two weeks with our daughter DeDe, son-in-law Yaakov and our three grandsons, Nani, Itai and Uriel.

Sharon has a beautiful Jewish community just south of Boston.

Two years ago,

I’m not generally big on texting. I basically just text my wife across the house when I don’t want to yell the same thing up the stairs 10 times or have the kids know what I’m saying. When I was growing up, my parents didn’t actually have texting, so I’m not sure how they had important conversations without us hearing

Reviewing “Genesis: From Creation to Covenant,” by Zvi Grumet. Maggid Books. Hardcover, 510 pages, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1-59264-477-3.

It was clear the moment I opened Rav Grumet’s new book that I was holding something wholly different—an approach to Bereishit

Reviewing: “Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust,” by Mordecai Paldiel. The Jewish Publication Society. Hardcover. 636 pages. 2017. ISBN-10: 0827612613.

Dr. Mordecai Paldiel dedicated over two decades of his life seeking out the

Hebrew teacher Chana Zinstein, of Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, recently developed a new curriculum that explores the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazi holiday minhagim, and how Jews from both Israel and the diaspora celebrate the holidays.

With the help

Our daughter Miriam has a friend named Naomi who was always considered the class queen. I know that might sound bad, but let’s face it. Every grade has a queen. It’s the way it is. Naomi was and is today very beautiful. She’s smart, sweet and comes from a well-known, affluent family. There’s nothing wrong with our daughter Miriam. I think she’s

Dear Shoshy,

I recently went on a first date with a boy and left the date feeling unsure how to proceed. I generally go on second dates as a rule in order to give the person another shot. However, I left this date unsure if I wanted to do so. The boy I went out with seemed

It will be a great day… in fact, Tu B’Av was always a great day for shidduchim...for thousands of years.

Thousands of Jews from across the globe will unite in tefillah for the zechus of all singles in klal Yisrael who have not yet found their zivugim. This