With Tisha B’Av now safely behind us, can Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur be not too far ahead? The High Holiday season will occur on the cusp of Labor Day weekend, one of the earliest such seasonal placements in memory. Due to this scheduling oddity, I have deemed this a major factor in the early consideration of the literary aspects that play an important part in the observance of these holidays. more

Chabad of Hewlett held its annual Chanukah on Ice celebration at Grant Park ice skating rink on Dec. 3. more

Supporters of Israel turned out in force on Sunday, with hundreds of thousands of spectators lining Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as an estimated 35,000 marchers, in colorful T-shirts, carrying large banners and fluttering blue and white Israeli flags, participated in the 50th Celebrate Israel Parade. more

“Tefilla (prayer) is a journey,” says Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. This school year, some students will better be able to experience that voyage with the release of the first two volumes in the Koren Magerman Educational Siddur Series, a joint project of Yeshiva University (YU) and Koren Publishers Jerusalem. more

Patients from across the U.S. will be visiting Lynbrook to be treated at the village’s newest medical practice, Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology. more

Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Corker-Menendez Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. The bill may turn out to be nothing more than window dressing, with Congress not … more

The past week has seen new revelations calling into question the efficacy of the P5+1 deal with Iran, and the truthfulness of what the Obama administration is telling the American people. Yet despite … more

Capping a week of preparation that included a 10th grade pre-Shabbaton party, an 11th grade pre-Shabbaton cholent cookoff and more, the ruach at the annual Stella K. Abraham High School for … more

“Timely, realistic, and frightening” were the words that William Daroff, senior vice president for public policy and director of the Washington Office of the Jewish Federations of North … more

In his commentary on the Counting of the Omer, “The Siddur Illuminated By Chassidus, Shabbos” (Merkos/Kehot, 2015), Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, formerly of Cedarhurst, now of Jerusalem, teaches … more