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Let me ask: how many of you still get the newspaper delivered to your home?

And how many of you actually read the print paper vs. reading it on a screen?

And how many of you are below the age of 60?…

Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, is best known for founding the Guardian Angels — and he credits a Jewish group with inspiring the movement.

As a teenager going to high school in Crown…

At an Upper West Side synagogue in April, Andrew Cuomo pronounced “the most important issue” in his campaign for mayor of New York City: antisemitism.

The former governor has centered an appeal to Jewish New Yorkers as…

Sukkos is “Zman Simchaseinu/the time of our joy,” and with G-d’s help, we may soon experience an immense joy that we have been awaiting and anticipating for two years now. Nothing is coincidence, the Sages teach us, as G-d conducts His…

As we search for a way to commemorate October 7^th, we might think of the simplest way: a celebration of indigeneity, called Sukkot.

A fundamental part of affirming Jewish indigeneity in Palestine, despite millennia of exile, is the attachment…

Three Core Ideas in Judaism
Judaism teaches that both belief and action are essential. Its central teachings can be grouped into three key ideas:
– G-d is the source and ultimate authority over all existence.
– G-d revealed His purpose for…

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✏ Cuomo…

“Time flies” is something I used to hear all the time growing up, but it is now a reality in my life. A couple of years ago, after not seeing my childhood friends for an entire year, I refused to think of myself as getting older. Instead,…

I suppose I haven’t been able to collect my thoughts and sit down before now to talk about this.

I’ve been too busy on social media posting information for those outside of Israel who don’t speak English and don’t receive accurate,…

Dana Hirshfeld has become one of Jerusalem’s protest leaders, but you could say she is something of an accidental activist.

It all started with the elderly.

It was 2023, and the governing coalition – then newly elected, and the most…