The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, at its annual breakfast on Sunday, honored Long Beach native and 30-year Far Rockaway resident Richard Altabe. Altabe, 57, is principal of … more

More than 2,000 people came to Citi Field on Sunday — not to root on the Mets, but to revel in Jewish learning. Thirty-eight scholars led classes on traditional and contemporary Jewish topics … more

We should not be surprised by the similarities between Judaism and the surrounding cultures, one of my professors, Rabbi Menachem M. Brayer, PhD zatzal, once noted. After all, they were in the same … more

Shortly after his election as Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel in the early 1970s, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef visited New York City and spent Yom Ha’Atzma’ut here. He gave a shiur for rabbis, at … more

Three years ago Koren Publishers released a unique liturgical work dedicated to Yom Ha’atzma’ut and Yom Yerushalayim. Among its essays, one written by Rabbi Berel Wein, titled simply … more

Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen was installed on Sunday as the mara d’atra of the Lido Beach Synagogue, Congregation Etz Chaim, at the eastern end of the Long Beach barrier island. Rabbis from shuls … more

While much of the first part of Parshat Emor speaks of rules of the Kohanim, there is a greater theme in the Torah portion on the periphery to being a Kohen, and it has to do with the desecration of … more

Family, friends and members of the community who never met them filled Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence on Monday night for an evening of inspiration in memory of Elisheva Kaplan and Yisroel … more

Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, recounting anecdotes from his years in prison, told an audience at the Agudath Israel of Bayswater last Wednesday night how his emunah sustained him. A pasuk in … more

American Jews who have jumped onto the anti-immigration bandwagon should reconsider, Bret Stephens, the New York Times’ pro-Israel columnist, said at a Touro Law Center event last … more