I often feel like the “A-team” of rabbis: “If you have a problem and you can find me, maybe I can help.” I don’t operate out of a synagogue; I’m a spiritual … more

Historians will be familiar with the observation in Kohelet, the book of Ecclesiastes, about the repetitive cycles of past and present: “What has been will be again; what has been done will be … more

In 1940 as Jews were being herded into the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe and Hitler’s hierarchy was meeting to determine the “final solution to the Jewish problem,” a small group … more

A 1,600-year-old mosaic said to be “one of the most impressive” ever discovered in Israel has gone on public display in the Negev desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced. … more

Zvi-Hirsh (Grisha) Zovergzde, a 32-year-old married father of two young children, was killed last week during combat operations on the Kherson front. The professional chef from Odessa served in … more

The episode of the spies has rightly puzzled commentators throughout the centuries. How could they have gotten it so wrong? The land, they said, was as Moses had promised — “flowing with … more

As I prepared for Shavuot, I rifled through books of recipes, looking for something different, and I came upon “The Settlement Cook Book: The Way to a Man’s Heart,” a tome I … more

Residents from the Five Towns and elsewhere on Long Island are contributing to Leket Israel by donating, volunteering or hosting events with the proceeds benefitting the national food bank for … more

Though postponed a month due to bad weather on the original date of May 4, the 25th annual Kulanu Fair on June 8 in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park was a fun-filled day as the sun shined bright. … more

H istory repeats itself. I don’t know the origin of that cliché, but I do know that our Sages held a similar point of view — Ma’aseh avot siman labanim (what happened with … more