When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast some months ago, destroying many neighborhoods in its path, quite a few with large frum populations, I could not help… Read more

The pursuit of work-life balance is, of course, not a uniquely Jewish issue. Only recently, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, unleashed a… Read more

I often recall my childhood days, growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the Fifties and Sixties. Many of us were children of survivors—those heroic individuals who came to these shores… Read more

As I sit down to write this message in early November, the front page of today’s New York Times blares, “Report Shows a Mere 80,000 Jobs Added in US in October.” “A gain of 80,000 jobs is barely worth… Read more

This issue was a particularly difficult one to work on. Reading the personal reminiscences of family members who lost loved ones, poring over first person-accounts of those who were there, trapped in… Read more

In recent months, I have grown accustomed to using the GPS in my car. Traveling to distant places, I still find it remarkable that every time I make a wrong turn, a friendly virtual voice redirects… Read more

In 1919, a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms, led by Polish peasants and soldiers, took place in Jewish towns throughout Western Galicia. A New York Times article, dated May 23, 1919, reported that in… Read more

Judaism is an optimistic religion. While Jewish history is replete with exiles, pogroms and destruction, it is also rich with triumph, victory and redemption. As a people, we have exhibited… Read more

While more and more dailies throughout the country are shutting down, new frum publications keep cropping up, it seems, every few months. Unquestionably, the proliferation of Orthodox print media is a… Read more

Back in the 60s when I attended yeshivah, the challenges facing Jewish education were formidable. The students tended to be first generation Americans; the rebbeim were Yiddish-speaking survivors.… Read more