9/11 We Will Always Remember

9/11 We Will Always Remember

Where were you on 9/11? This question has been asked over and over again during the past twenty years since that dreadful day. Many of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the horrific news about the first plane hitting the World...
If you Don’t Laugh…You’ll Cry

If you Don’t Laugh…You’ll Cry

Jewish intermarriage has recently come into focus as a critical, international problem. It seems that a team of Harvard geneticists, in an acclaimed, peer-reviewed study has recently concluded that, unless something is done soon to stem the growing trend of Jewish men...
Origins and Fables of Giving Gifts at Hanukkah

Origins and Fables of Giving Gifts at Hanukkah

In the article Jews and Christmas, by Rabbi Joshua E. Plaut that’s published on the website, My Jewish Learning, he muses how the Christmas season has influenced the Hanukkah festival among the Jewish communities throughout Europe and Western society in the last one...
The Berger Brothers’ Lives with the Messiah

The Berger Brothers’ Lives with the Messiah

Brothers Benjamin and Reuven Berger were born in New York City to parents who had barely escaped the Shoah. They were observant Orthodox Jews living in a Jewish neighborhood, attending Yeshiva until the end of high school. After studying architecture and design in...
The Not So Silent Years

The Not So Silent Years

In the last book of the Tanach (“the Old Testament”), the prophet, Malachi in about 430 BC, voiced the promise of the prophet, Elijah’s, return. Four centuries later, John the Baptist, in the spirit of Elijah, began crying in the wilderness (as prophesied by Isaiah...