HANC ECC enjoyed a morning filled with nachas for the school’s grandparents and special guests with a program that involved davening, songs and a delicious brunch. Each guest left with a … more

There are jokes which are very funny on the surface but which, upon reflection, can be quite painful and disturbing. One of them, told frequently a few decades ago, concerns a matronly woman from the … more

Al HaNissim is recited in the Shemoneh Esrai and Birkat Hamazon on the two rabbinically-enacted chagim of Chanukah and Purim. Chanukah’s version contains the expression “am’echa … more

The vision of what it would mean to command men was evaporating before my eyes. Two weeks after completing IDF Officer’s course, I had been looking forward to the challenges of mission … more

The deception has taken place. Joseph was sold into slavery; his brothers dipped his coat in blood and they bring it back to their father, saying: “Look what we have found. Do you recognize … more

This week’s column is focused on the teachings of Rav Shalom Noach Berezovsky zt’’l, the Slonimer Rebbe, in translation and interpretation by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein in his … more

Over the eight days of Chanukah we celebrate the Maccabees, proud warriors against anti-Semitism, who fought to defend our Jewish heritage and Jewish homeland from the Greek Seleucid invaders. The … more

By now it’s an iconic picture. The one from Kiel, Germany, 1931. Yad Vashem has circulated it for a while; nonetheless, every Chanukah it still touches me. It was an erev Shabbat, the … more

As anyone who has ever served on the board of an organization knows, “no good deed goes unpunished.” There is no better example of that expression than the executive order to fight … more

The relief was overwhelming. When the exit polls on Thursday evening correctly predicted a large majority for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, British Jews allowed themselves to breathe … more