April 1, 2020/7 Nisan 5780
To our Fellow Members of the Queens Jewish Community: Words cannot describe the difficulties and challenges we are all experiencing. This is a time...
Politics
Challenging… But Not Crazy
I received an email from a friend yesterday. He wanted to know how I’m doing and simply asked, “Hey, Shmuel. How are you and the family during these crazy...
A Tectonic Shift: Traditional Religious Groups To Lead American WZC Delegation
If the World Zionist Elections were Olympic performances, two Orthodox slates would walk to the podium to accept the bronze and silver medals. Just...
A Tale Of Two People
This article will be shorter than I intended. First of all, given what is taking place, my head is not completely tuned in. More importantly, I was...
Useless Or Useful Place
A long time ago – or at least what feels like a long time ago – it was actually on a Friday morning a month BCE (Before Coronavirus Exploded), I...
Style & Living
Celebrating Pesach And Corona: A Paradigm Shift
Friends: My prior reminders that “We are all in this together” never rang more true than now. During my hiatus, it is not only I who have changed,...
Masking Fashion
Certainly this is a time to examine the content of what we are reading, writing, seeing and doing. It brings me to question my own mission of The...
Pesach And Dieting... What’s The Connection?
Self-control Think about the built in self-control we have every Pesach. We can’t eat our usual foods; some don’t even go out to eat or eat in...
Torah
Taking Each Mitzvah Seriously
The meaning of each mitzvah a Jew does is illustrated powerfully in a story related by Rav Yaakov Galinsky, zt”l. He heard it from one of the...
Short And Deep Insights For Seder Night
We all want to share deep and thoughtful ideas at the Seder in order to enhance the experience. This collection of short and deep insights for the...
Hashem And Man: Master And Servant
The kohen shall don a garment of linen, and he shall don linen breeches on his skin, and he shall remove the ashes.” – VaYikra 6:3
