From the Editor: Et tu Brute?
You park your car in the driveway and it is stolen overnight. That happens all too often just about everywhere. A few days later the police call to say...
Bagel Store: My Chanukah
Thirty-one years later, I’m still searching for answers. My family, my friends, and my readers these last two decades know that Chanukah of 1989 shook me up and changed...
From the Editor: Closed and Open
The worst thing you can say about Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio is that despite having aides who are members of the Jewish community, at the...
Bagel Store: The Jewish Week, OB’M
In days gone by it would have been a natural and even expected consequence of some of our reporting. But that was when The Jewish Week, a once-upon-a-time weekly...
From the Editor: Jonathan Pollard Is Free at Last
Jonathan Pollard is finally free to go to Israel and live in the land for which he literally gave so much of his life.
Over all these decades, the attitude...
Bagel Store: Outdoor Minyanim Are Here to Stay
It was a throwback to events of a half-century ago. It was a snowy day in Brooklyn, freezing cold, as we waited at our street corner for the bus...
From the Editor: Free to Choose
The poet W.H. Auden said, “We are free to choose, but choose we must.” And that seemingly applies to the dilemma in which we find ourselves when figuring out...
Bagel Store: His Will and Design
By the time you read this, it looks like it will be raining and much cooler than it was last weekend. That beautiful weather we had last weekend and...
From the Editor: History Not Repeating Itself
Sometimes history refuses to properly scan its records and select a period in its files to use once more. The adage that history repeats itself may be a credible...
Bagel Store: Love Is All You Need
Chanukah is not for another month but that does not mean that I’m not thinking about it — I am. This year we will mark my father’s 31st yahrzeit....
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Life In The Corridor
By Rabbi Reuven Taragin
רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר, הָעוֹלָם הַזֶּה דּוֹמֶה לִפְרוֹזְדוֹר בִּפְנֵי הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא. הַתְקֵן עַצְמְךָ בַפְּרוֹזְדוֹר, כְּדֵי שֶׁתִּכָּנֵס לַטְּרַקְלִין:
הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר, יָפָה שָׁעָה אַחַת...
“Ahava:” All You Need Is Love
By Rochelle Maruch Miller
Yoni Z is on a mission. Intent on upping the game, he hopes to change the landscape of Jewish music forever and...
Bug Off!
By Yair Hoffman
The summer is fast approaching. And often, when the weather becomes warmer, our fruits and vegetables become buggier. Eating bugs is a...