All beginning students of Torah face this obstacle: In their original, the primary texts of our Jewish tradition have no punctuation. There are neither commas nor periods in the Torah scroll. … more

HaRav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik zatzal was one of the 19th century’s greatest European Torah scholars. He is known as the Beit HaLevi after the title of his grand exposition of the … more

Imagine being able to exit Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, hop on a fast train to Jerusalem and within about 45 minutes, stand at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. That … more

Palestinian Authority and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced last week that the P.A. is renouncing the peace deals it signed with Israel along with its agreements with the United States. According … more

Any person who follows the news knows that anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. As it has spread, so has our insight that this is a hatred with many faces, a many-headed monster fed by … more

Although my column’s been on break lately, I jumped at the chance to write an article this week when my fave editor Ed Weintrob asked if I would for the Shavuot edition. Since I last wrote, my … more

The Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls has named its graduation honorees. Valedictorian: Atara Shtern Atara Shtern is the Captain of the Northwell Health Spark! Team, Editor in Chief … more

A record breaking 582 students wre graduate from Touro’s Lander Colleges this month with baccalaureate degrees, and 116 students will graduate from Machon L’Parnasa/The Institute for … more

Valedictorian Sari Gross resides in Woodmere. She is a member of Math Olympiad and is part of the Science Scholars program, where she independently learns topics in science and teaches them to the … more

For Sarit Haviv, 53, of Brooklyn’s Mill Basin neighborhood, the toughest part of having COVID-19 was seeing her beloved husband of 30 years, Shlomo Haviv, become ill … more