This summer, while many children may be running away from school and books, I hope to make reading fun. I will be busy learning and ...

Jewish history has never been neutral terrain. From Avraham Avinu’s first command: “Lech lecha… el ha’aretz asher areka” to the prophets’ visions of return and ...

The custom to read the Torah at night on Simchat Torah (ST) is very unusual. At no other time during the year is the Torah read at night. Our first question will be how this custom arose. The next ...

Highlighting: “Blurred Vision (Dark-Cult Survivor, Book One),” by Susan L. Rosenbluth. Red Adept Publishing. July 2026.

This summer, on a trip to Eretz Yisrael, I visited the Feldheim seforim store and came across a wonderful set of books, which ...

For more than a decade, Pessie Schlafrig has helped patients and families navigate some of the most complicated moments of ...

The greatest intelligence failure would not be missing Iran’s collapse. It would be failing to prepare for what comes afterward. Intelligence services are trained to detect threats before they ...

For countless families across North America’s Modern Orthodox communities, from Bergen County and the Five Towns to Boca ...

Among the more common phrases you’ll hear around this time of year in Israel is “Acharei ha’chagim” – that is, after the ...

As Jewish communities across Bergen County prepared for the High Holidays, Bergen County Shomrim expanded its specialized Yom ...

Howdy friends! With Sukkot and Simchat Torah just ahead, we are knee deep in celebration as well as preparation, LOL. Much of ...

Sukkot is a beautiful holiday. There is a mitzvah to eat and sleep under the stars in specially decorated thatched huts, and to wave a bundle of four special types of plants. Some of these plants are ...