Halachic Musings: Good and Bad of a Second Kashrus Organization
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Last week three area establishments announced they would give up their supervision by Vaad HaKashrus of the Five Towns and join a new hashgacha, Mehadrin of...
Should Halacha Allow People to Carry Weapons in Shul?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The horrific tragedy in a Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Shabbos morning that left 11 people dead should cause us, perhaps, to rethink the manner...
My Story With The Rebbe
By Yochanan Gordon
This Shabbos, Parashas Korach, marks the 25th year since the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I have used this space in previous years to pen my personal...
Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You About Social Media Anti-Jewish Hatred
By Cindy Grosz
I hate to say it, but it was just a matter of time until antisemitism on social media erupted into violence.
Since August, I have been reporting about...
A Closer Look at Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, z’l, was a descendant of Rav Avrohom Weinberg, the first Slonimer Rebbe, one of the leading chassidic rabbis of the 19th century. He...
From Moshe To Moshe—I Will Be With You
By Malkie Hirsch
As we sat down for dinner tonight, the six of us eating and chitchatting about various topics, a thought of doing this family thing by ourselves without...
Novak: What We Can Learn From Sheryl Sandberg’s Fall
By Jake Novak
It was a rare and touching moment of humanity in the otherwise inhuman world of news. Fresh from the sudden tragedy of her husband’s death, Facebook Chief...
AN INSPIRING BAGEL
Every now and then it pays to take stock and do an emotional inventory, so to speak. And one of those points of curiosity over the years has been...
The Kiddush Club Crisis
By Yochanan Gordon
It seems that for anything to get attention in the Jewish community, it needs to be termed a “crisis.” Thankfully, from a literary point of view, the...
Novak: Why Comparing the Migrant Crisis to the Holocaust Is Dangerous for Jews
By Jake Novak
Two years after President Donald Trump was elected, you’d think America’s politicians and news media alike would have finally tired of all the comparisons to Nazi Germany.
But...
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A Nation In Mourning
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
Most people don’t get it. And it’s not that they don’t try, but they’re simply not equipped with the tools to...
A Wonderful Whirlwind Weekend
By Larry Gordon
It is not that my parents invented weekend bar mitzvahs, but that’s exactly how we celebrated about a half-century ago. At the...
Breaking Dawn Plus
By Larry Gordon
Seventeen years ago this week, the order was issued to forcibly evacuate residents of Gush Katif, about 10,000 people who courageously built communities...