The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) recent statements criticizing the election victory by Donald Trump and Mike Pence are inappropriate and harmful.  The front page of the ADL’s … more

Leonard Cohen was buried in his hometown of Montreal hours before his death was made public. Cohen died Nov. 7 in Los Angeles and was buried Nov. 10 at his family’s plot in the Shaar … more

Using his M-16 assault rifle as a pillow, my father awoke abruptly from a dreamless sleep by the pleading voice of a young woman outside his tent in the Sinai. The woman, a uniformed volunteer, … more

HAFTR High School opened its doors to more than 350 people on last Sunday for its Class of 2021 open house. … more

Achieving greatness is the theme of a seminar being conducted by Rabbi Immanuel Yosef Legomsky, MA, neurotherapist, a PTSD trauma expert and director of Israel Trauma Care. Rabbi Legomsky’s … more

Donald Trump is now America’s master.  As improbable as that outcome might seem to metropolitan Americans, it is actually quite consistent with the pattern of politics during the last … more

The Young Israel of North Bellmore celebrated its 50th anniversary at a gala dinner at Congregation Ohr Torah in Valley Stream last Sunday. The shul honored the three rabbis who served there during … more

Presidential politics was at play at the Shulamith School for Girls in Cedarhurst and Manhattan Day School on the Upper West Side. At Shulmaith, Mrs. Danyel Goldberg played Hillary Clinton and … more

Famously, last week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha (ranslated “Go To Yourself”) speaks of journeys. Specifically, Abraham’s journey. He was called upon by G-d, and he … more

I remember that ride, passing Agam Karun (Karun reservoir) and then the road below the Beaufort fortress, imagining what that would have been like if the PLO still controlled that high ground. … more