It’s what we do every day. Whether it’s the food we favor…a bagel with shmear… or the drive to repair the world…tikkun olam, we Jews are there, especially in Rockland County. We plan to bring Doing Jewish to you every Friday. Sometimes it’ll be fun, sometimes it’ll be serious.
One of the enduring mysteries of human cognition is how to distinguish between the destructive power of fire and its capacity to illuminate, civilize, and educate. The very same flame that can burn a house down can also cook food to sustain us. A torch can be a weapon of war, and it can also…
Recently, my adult children came to visit me from Canada. As has become our tradition once or twice a year, we make a pilgrimage, as we are all insatiable readers, to The Strand Bookstore in Manhattan. Upon leaving at each visit, my children and I each depart with 4-5 books we’ve found amo…
The United Jewish Federation of Stamford, New Canaan and Darien Connecticut, has just announced the application window for the second year of the Lilly Reiser Scholarship. The scholarship will provide ten spots for Jewish college students in New York or Connecticut, who will be attending an …
On December 28, 2023, I landed in Tel Aviv not as a tourist but as an oleh chadash—a new immigrant. While my decision to make Aliyah was deeply personal, its timing, just weeks after the tragedy of October 7, tied my arrival to Israel’s collective moment of crisis. Amid the ongoing war, …
A few days ago, I was walking through the Delta terminal at JFK, returning from a much needed break with my family. As we walked through the interminably long series of gates, I kept noticing at most of these gates there were one or more Chabad shluchim (emissaries) waiting for flights to fa…
