Jewish Voices, Jewish Lives

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.

It’s Time to Come Together: Register for these important events

Dear Federation Friends -

We have planned meaningful programs and events taking place during this post-Pesach period, and prior to Shavuot (June 11). They are highlighted in this newsletter and we would be delighted if you joined us.

On May 19 at 7 p.m., hear deeply touching words from Shi…

Left and Right

And the water was for them as a wall, from their right and their left.

Exodus-Shemot 14:29

On these latter days of Pesach, tradition tells us that the Children of Israel approached the Reed Sea, pursued by the might of the Egyptian Empire. Of course, the miracle of the splitting of the sea…

He Who Neither Slumbers nor Sleeps

Many of us head into the first days of Pesach having spent the previous couple of weeks cleaning and preparing. We are drained, exhausted.

When I was about 12, our family was in the kosher food business, and we had just opened a second location a few months before Pesach. It was always a b…

Thank you, Thank you very much…

You may have noticed that sometimes my message titles have pop culture references. Today I am referencing, of course, Elvis Presley. I reference him because even though he was omnipresent while he was alive and a fixture in popular music, his influence still remains, in many ways still infor…

Get Up, Stand Up

Those of you familiar with Bob Marley will recognize the refrain. Stand up for your rights. Don't give up the fight.

Earlier this week, I stood up with 3,000 of my neighbors in Teaneck outside of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, when a few dozen anti-Zionist agitators came to disrupt an event fo…