Isaias: The Storm That Was
By Alex Edelman, Mayor, Village of Lawrence
Eli Kutner, Candidate, Village of Lawrence Trustee
Pesach Osina, Candidate, NYC Council District 31
Paris Popack, President, Lawrence Association, candidate, Village of Lawrence Trustee
On Tuesday,...
A Closer Look at Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, z’l, was a descendant of Rav Avrohom Weinberg, the first Slonimer Rebbe, one of the leading chassidic rabbis of the 19th century. He...
What Seth Rogen Is Really Telling Us
By Rabbi Yotav Eliach
Seth Rogen is not a bad person, nor is he a self-hating Jew. He is a typical North American “woke” progressive, a citizen of the world...
The Way It Is: Suicide, They Wrote
Will Ghislaine Maxwell be allowed to live? It’s a pity that Jeffrey Epstein was not. And not because of sympathy for Epstein — my sympathy is for his victims,...
Other Side Of The Bench: Mourning Laws
In pre-corona days, I would wake up around 5:30 a.m., hit a 6 a.m. minyan, rush home, grab a bite, and be off to my office in Brooklyn or...
Yochanan Gordon: Kol Korehs and Excommunications
The current kashrus debate is very much on people’s minds and in their conversations these days. It seems to be a highly contentious issue, conjuring deep emotion and excitement...
Halachic Musings: Good and Bad of a Second Kashrus Organization
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Last week three area establishments announced they would give up their supervision by Vaad HaKashrus of the Five Towns and join a new hashgacha, Mehadrin of...
Seidemann: Summer of Insanity
The gavel came crashing down and with it the hopes and dreams of children who wanted to go upstate for summer camp. Kids who needed a break from their...
Seidemann: When Democracy Becomes Hypocrisy
I begin by wishing a happy birthday to my third daughter, who turned 20 this week. Who would have believed that when she turned 20 in the year 2020...
The Way It Is: Irony and Iron Will
Determined as I am to stay off the topic of city-wide protests and riots, and unwilling to watch any television news, by necessity, my focus here must shift to...