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  Back in March, as the reality of the lockdown set in, a caller to the Shalom Task Force (STF) hotline shared her fears about being trapped with her husband....

  It happened: I finally got a traffic ticket, after 20 years of driving, on and off. I would not recommend it. For one thing, it takes forever. How long...

By Rabbi Yossy Goldman Some arguments are petty affairs between small people who aren’t big enough, so they need to stand up for their perceived honor or imaginary status. Other...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s the ninth question on the census, and for many Jewish respondents, it’s a surprising — and sometimes unwelcome — invitation to consider who exactly...

JNS.org – Israel has begun to map the Judea and Samaria lands that Israel will annex, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an election campaign rally in Ma’ale...

  Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York State Senator Todd Kaminsky announced that an additional $25 million from the State’s Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes (“SCAHC”) grant program will...

Flight 613, Prepare for Boarding: In September 1995, Rabbi Zalman Wolowik and his wife, Chanie, arrived to establish a Chabad Center to serve the Five Towns and surrounding communities....

By Rabbi Meir Orlian On Chanukah, menoros throughout the world burn brightly to celebrate Hashem’s miracles and our deliverance from the Greeks. In the evening, the streets in Jewish neighborhoods,...

BY RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The list includes names like Peter Beinart, the liberal writer; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the liberal Middle East policy group J Street; and Sheila Katz,...

  It’s been a long time since we went to a movie — at least a year — and I don’t remember what movie it was. In between though, we...