Standing Versus Sitting
When I was a very young man, I davened on yom tov with my parents on the second floor of Chabad Headquarters on Eastern Parkway—the internationally renowned 770—where there...
The Jewish Vote
We are an extremely tiny minority, comprising just 2.7% of the U.S. population and 0.2% of the world population.
But the good news about that, at least in the minds...
The Sukkah Evolution
The coolest sukkah in the world might be in the lobby of The Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem. If you happen to be in Jerusalem on Sukkos and you’d...
Protests, Songs, And A President
It was a day filled with work, news, and play, so to speak. It started out with a Five Towns event that included 25 vendors from Israel selling apartments...
Transitional
It happened this time of year many years ago. If you want me to be precise about the exact number of years, I would say about three decades, or...
Getting Out The Vote
You have no doubt heard these words before. This upcoming election in November will be the most important one in modern times. But even more important, if you do...
Old And New In Israel
My father came to the U.S. from a small shtetl in Belarus in 1934 with his mother and three siblings. His father arrived in New York two years earlier...
Gilad And Hersh
It’s very sad, indeed, when forced to confront the value of a human life. Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, did a remarkable job of keeping their...
Changing Values
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support of Donald J. Trump is of course about a prominent Democrat supporting the leading Republican candidate for president, much to the chagrin of the...
Democrats Mislead
Last week in this newspaper, Democratic congressional candidate Laura Gillen gave the impression that her party was doing more to fight antisemitism in the U.S., including here in Long...