Always Running
Up until the 2022 congressional election, we had excellent representation in the House in Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. But after Ms. Rice decided not to seek reelection, the seat was...
The Poland Dilemma
My wife, Esta, always said that her father was adamantly against it. He didn’t want to hear about it or consider it, and would be upset if he knew...
A Few Days In NYC
We went to Manhattan several times last week. That is not a schedule we generally set up for ourselves, but we were both interested in participating in a few...
Thoughts On Trump
There was a clip posted online a few weeks ago of Donald Trump in a golf cart in Florida calling out to a group of what looked like frum...
A Rabbinic Profile
Rabbi Yechezkel Freundlich is the new rabbi in the Five Towns. He has been at the rabbinic helm of the almost 100-year-old Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence, NY, for...
Compromise On Anti-Semitism
The U.S. federal government has finally decided when it is proper to express hostility and disdain for Jews and when it is a little bit too much and some...
Summer Plans
The holidays are behind us and the holidays are before us. In other words, no sooner is yom tov joyously celebrated than it leaves, and new important days on...
Fischman And Chabad: Changing Signs
A story like this is usually about a name going up on a shul or a yeshiva building as an act of extraordinary philanthropy. But this is exactly the...
Mountain Climbing
The mountain climbers of the world dream about and work toward scaling the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest in Senegal. This is the greatest mountain peak any human...