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.
The Jewish Federation & Foundation of Rockland County mourns the killing of a young Jewish couple in Washington last night. The two, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, HY'D, were employees at the Israeli embassy who were attending an event for young professionals at the Jewish Museum. We…
It was a burning hot summer, 34 years ago in Jerusalem. I had been backpacking for a month in Scotland and England, and had just got to Israel a few days earlier. The ninth of Av that year was on Shabbat, so the day-long fast commemorating the destruction of the Temple in 68 CE was pushed of…
In 2006, President George W Bush designated May as Jewish American Heritage Month, providing Jewish communities in America with a platform to look back on our history here, celebrating accomplishments in fields such as science, medicine, politics, arts and entertainment. Events and activitie…
If not for the FIRST, there's a good chance I’d still be in this room—BUT sitting in the audience with you, not standing here talking about counterterrorism and Jewish communal security.
The image is fixed. Seared in my mind, in my memory, forever. The lioness, Shiri Bibas HY’D, holding her boys in her arms, the fear and determination written on her face. The pictures and videos of her family life that we all saw in the aftermath tell a story of love, happiness, laughter a…
