For many people Chanukah is party season, eight days of rushing from event to event. Whether it’s the entire extended family or a few friends, Chanukah is a time of connecting with our loved … more

Last Friday at 12:20 pm, I picked up my friend Beverly and we headed to New Jersey to visit our dear friends, Janet and Lior Hod, for Shabbat. Our husbands were leaving a little later from the city … more

Long Beach community was spiritually uplifted by the visit of Rabbi Mordechai Leifer and his entourage of over 100 Chassidim over Shabbos Parshas VaYishlach. The Rebbe, who resides in Ashdod, is a … more

The gruesome revelations about the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorists castrating one of their Israeli victims is not just another horror story. There are important political and strategic implications. … more

Imagine a bar mitzvah without a book? In the seventies, eighties and nineties, those with a formal reception for family and friends had a photographer and then eagerly planned and anxiously … more

This year’s Jewish season of joy has been marred by a series of ongoing tragedies. In his recent book, “Judaism Alive,” Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn of the Yavneh Academy in Los Angeles, … more

Strange as it seems there’s been a run of crazy dreams,” sings the narrator in the musical about Joseph, and what is most needed is a dream interpreter. What a strange time to live in, … more

Two hundred Upper West Siders joined Manhattan Day School’s Stand With Israel event last week. The MDS Eighth Grade Israel Advocacy Team presented “Israel Past, Present and Future: The … more

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Chanukah’s oily treat more