Dear Residents of the Five Towns, Cedarhurst's Mayor, Andrew ("Andy") Parise, was a beloved public servant who was there for our community for nearly half a century in local government.  … more

There are some crazy myths running through American politics today, things like the U.S. government was behind the twin towers attack on 9/11, Barack Obama was born in Kenya (or was it the planet … more

Every Veterans Day is staff development day throughout the yeshiva world. This year, workshops by two master educators were presented for CAHAL staff. Melody Harris has been with CAHAL for over 20 … more

Donald Trump and his people have been whining like three-year-olds ever since he was trounced by Ted Cruz in Colorado. But don’t believe the whines; Trump is carefully rousing his base, people … more

My grandparents really knew how to cook. It seems to me that everyone born in “the Old Country” (in this case, Transylvania) was born with a built-in cooking intuition. Somehow they could … more

PARIS — It wasn’t the first time that a French president acknowledged his nation’s Holocaust-era guilt, but Emmanuel Macron’s speech on July 16 was nonetheless groundbreaking … more

Rambam Mesivta’s Annual Teshuva-Thon featured Rabbi Herschel Reichman, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University, as its Maggid Shiur. The learning program, on Tzom Gedalya, featured father and son … more

The name name “Be’er Sheva” appears a total of nine times in Sefer Bereishit, and serves as the opening verse of our parasha, Vayatze: “And Jacob left Be’er Sheva and … more

In 1925, the American Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated (as an extension of Vesto Slipher’s discovery in 1918) that the universe was not static, it was expanding: every galaxy in the … more