‘Chaya’s Torah’ Dedicated With Joy And Celebration At Chabad Of Rego Park
Music, singing, and dancing along 99th Street welcomed a new Torah at the Chabad of Rego Park on Sunday. “Chaya’s Torah” is named after Rabbi and...
ISRAEL HERITAGE FOUNDATION HOSTS VP PENCE BOOK SIGNING
The Most Dangerous Thing Today
I have read statistics about the negative effects that social media is having on our population, especially the young generation, and we need to...
How It Happened
Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President of the Orthodox Union (OU), issued a statement after some Jewish men went into the Arab town of Hawara...
Checks And Balances
Although I am a lawyer, I am not admitted to practice law in Israel. Thus, I do not have expertise in Israeli law. However, I do understand politics and the...
Can We Still Bank On Banks?
Financial experts agree that US government bonds are the safest investment in the world - but don’t try to convince officials at Silicon Valley Bank of...
Style & Living
Priorities
I’m torn. I’m not a big fan of nepotism, known in Israel as protectzia. I think that people should be treated fairly and given the same...
Jumpstart On Pesach
Purim is behind us. The eating, dancing, and partying are now hopefully pleasant memories (Notice that I didn’t mention the drinking, which may have left...
Tales From the Reserves
My son Aharon didn’t expect a happy response from me when he told me that he would be doing a two-week stint in the reserves. And he didn’t get one....
Torah
“We Shall Not Stumble”
The power of t’shuvah is great. Sometimes, all it needs is a little nudge from the right source. The story is told of a Yerushalmi Torah scholar from...
The Shabbos Dilemma
In the early part of the 20th century, a young girl stood near her father on the dock of a Polish harbor, a steamer trunk at her feet. Out of her...
“Hoo-rah!”
The early 1950s was an especially terrible time for Jews in the Soviet Union, a period filled with terror and dread. With a maniacal tyrant leading...
