Last year, we celebrated Earth Day (April 22) at ISRAEL21c by looking into whether Covid-19 made Earth hit a pause button and its effects on climate change. This year, as Israel emerges from the … more

When comedian Mendy Pellin posted on Twitter that “sefira music is the audio equivalents of Pesach cereal,” he was referring to the recent trend of Orthodox singers to produce albums and … more

The campaign manager for a Democratic New York City Council candidate said last week that Manhattan’s Upper West Side is too white and Jewish, the New York Post reported. Quinn Mootz, who is … more

In his motzei Shabbos update, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt said it was too early to say with certainty what Shavuos would look like, but that COVID-19 restrictions were definitely heading toward … more

Mikaela Fligelman of Woodmere joined her HAFTR Early Childhood class in a boisterous celebration of Yom Ha’Atzmaut last Thursday. There were crowns, flags, songs and dance, mock trips to Eretz … more

Riverdale has a large and diverse Jewish population and is home to several Orthodox shuls, Jewish schools, and kosher shopping and dining venues. What it apparently no longer has is a voice in … more

It was a unique, unrepeatable moment of leadership at its highest height. For 40 days Moses had been communing with G-d, receiving from Him the Law written on tablets of stone. … more

The second volume in a series based on the work of Rabbi Yechiel Perrin, “Faith Over Fear, A Path to Bitachon,” sheds light on the fundamentals of becoming a ba’al bitachon, as … more

The first of our two parshiot, Acharei Mot and Kedoshim, begins with the well-known verse that references the death of Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu: “And the L-rd spoke to Moshe … more

He never returned phone calls. He certainly never returned e-mails. He rarely smiled. He had very sophisticated tastes in wine and fine liquor. A seven-course gourmet dinner with a wine … more