How many of you have said that you would not eat for a week because you were so stuffed from six meals over the three day Rosh Hashanah holiday? What about after the first days of Sukkot?
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By Judy Joszef
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10/23/14
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Ex-presidents seldom take an interest in Jewish affairs, with two notable exceptions. One is Jimmy Carter, who has repeatedly clashed with the Jewish community. Another is Herbert Hoover, an unlikely …
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The North Shore Hebrew Academy is the Great Neck community’s Modern Orthodox yeshiva day school, serving students from all over Long Island and Queens.
Embracing the finest aspects of Jewish …
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NSHA
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10/23/14
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Two students at the Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway — senior Russell Charnoff and junior Justin Lish — are regional finalists in the prestigious Siemens science …
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10/23/14
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The opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” opened at the Met. Rightly castigated for its invocation of unpleasant Jewish stereotypes and its apologia for the Palestinian terrorists’ …
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Commentary by Ben Cohen
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10/23/14
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Sleight of hand is used by a magician to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly. It’s also a technique used by politicians to hide events or actions taken which may be criticized …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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10/23/14
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After nearly a year of protests, the Obama administration has finally agreed to permit a rug connected to the Armenian genocide to be publicly displayed. The long ordeal of the Armenian Orphan Rug, …
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By Rafael Medoff
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10/23/14
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The Yazidi people fleeing into the cold cruel mountains of Iraq to avoid massacre; hundreds of thousands of Kurds running across the borders into Turkey and Jordan to escape beheadings and mass rape …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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10/23/14
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When we are introduced to Noach at the beginning of the parsha, Rashi notes that his being called a tzaddik (righteous man) “in his generation” could be interpreted either …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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10/23/14
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It’s not the first time that the Metropolitan Opera has put on its boards a drama about the murder of a Jew — or Jews.
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Commentary by Seth Lipsky
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10/23/14
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