Touro University Welcomes Benjamin Lowenthal As New Chief Financial Officer
Veteran higher education finance executive brings 35 years of leadership experience to Touro, strengthening financial strategy and supporting...
Israel Consul General Ofir Akunis: Fighting for Israel in the Public Square
It’s a tough job, and perhaps getting tougher, to be a public advocate for Israel. Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Israel Consul General of New York Ofir...
Train Wreck In Slow Motion
For decades, many people have worried that the world is becoming overpopulated. They were concerned about shortages of food and water, not enough...
Switching Tribes
In preparation for the High Holy Days, Sephardim began saying Selichos at the start of Elul, and Ashkenazim began on Saturday night, September 13. The...
Style & Living
For Nadav
Nadav Nun and Nadav Shin – that’s how Nadav Elchanan Knoller and Nadav Schwartz were known in preschool. The first letters of their last names, nun...
Kever Rachel: Finding Connection Within The Noise
When I entered Kever Rachel this week, I sensed right away that this visit would be different. Though it wasn’t yet Aseres Y’mei T’shuvah, the Elul...
The Beauty Benefits of Honey
Rosh HaShanah, the first day of Tishrei, coincides with the sixth day of Creation and marks the anniversary of mankind, when Hashem created Adam and...
Torah
The Year Without Shmuessen
Although the mitzvah of teshuvah can be done at any time of the year, the practice is most associated with Aseres Yemei Teshuvah—the Ten Days of Repentance....
A King Without A Kingdom
It is said that the renowned Chassidic mashpia, R’ Dovid Horodoker zt”l, wept when Czar Nicholas II was overthrown during the Russian Revolution of 1917....
The Jewish Gangsters Who Defended American Jewry
The Gemara recounts how the Sages told R’ Zeira, “One should always reject with the left hand and embrace with the right” (Sota 47b). R’ Zeira,...
