Symbols resonate. It is nearly impossible to calculate the regnant hold that symbols have over one’s identity, one’s core beliefs, one’s religion, one’s affiliation with a … more

A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead last week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin. Western … more

The prohibition of charging a fellow indigent Jew interest on a loan is one of the many subjects addressed in our parasha, Behar. While this topic analyzed and expanded upon throughout … more

There was a time when Jewish people’s faith in the one G-d of Israel was challenged on a regular basis. During the Crusades, many thousands of Jews were forced to choose between “the … more

It is a lesson I first learned in a course I took long ago on the skills of interviewing. The instructor taught us that the way to really size up a candidate for a job is to determine how he uses … more

A best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” a dense 700-page-long treatise on economic theory backed by massive … more

The Nassau County executive convened a 27-member committee on Tuesday tasked with finding ways to combat the growing scourge of Jew hatred that’s not spared Long Island … more

Blue and white were the colors of choice at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park on May 5, Yom Ha’atzmaut. At a schoolwide Tefillah Chagigit in the morning, Dr. Mila … more

A rabbinic intern at the Great Neck Synagogue was hospitalized after he was violently attacked in an apparent anti-Semitic assault last Friday in Crown Heights. Rabbi Yehoshua Lefkowitz, 32, was … more

Growing tension on the Temple Mount largely reflects the completely different ways the two sides view the reality of the Mount, particularly Israel’s actions there. In the Israeli perceptual … more