For Bukharian families, Rosh Hashanah is a time to gather, reflect, and welcome sweetness into the year ahead. At the festive table, each dish carries meaning — golden rice with carrots and honey for prosperity, flaky pastries filled with apples for renewal, tender meatballs enriched with dried
As the Jewish community of Queens enters the month of Elul and prepares for the Yamim Nora’im, all are invited to strengthen their practice of the
Let me tell you what I’ve seen. Not secondhand. I lived through it. I felt it.
The Ben Ish Chai, in his Ben Yehoyada (Gittin 56b), tells a parable about the king of Spain who heard of a man reputed to be the world’s greatest
Parashat Ki Teitzei closes with a chilling commandment etched into the national memory of klal Yisrael:
Presented in memory of the recent passing of Rabbi Berel Wein zt”l
With the recent passing of klal Yisrael’s beloved historian and thinker Rabbi
How we deal with our garbage says a lot about who we are as a society. New York City must look as good as the people who live here. I have said it
