A little more than 50 years ago, on December 6, 1975, a makeshift Shabbat prayer service was held in the cavernous ballroom of Lincoln Square Synagogue, which was then located on West 69th Street and ...

Candles seem to be used in a lot of different ways for Jewish people. I personally was never sure what happens at Orthodox bat mitzvahs, but I just know that it may or may not involve some sort of ...

Rabbi Yitzchak Shmuel Ackerman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with specialties in marriage, relationships, and parenting. He works with parents and educators, and conducts parenting seminars ...

Thanks to her efforts, domestic violence is now on the national Jewish agenda. But the Rebbetzin didn’t simply raise awareness; she opened safe houses across the country, trained volunteers to provide ...

Dr. Chani Miller is an optometrist and writer who lives in Highland Park, N.J., with her family. She is a frequent contributor to The Jewish Press.

Martin Bodek is an avid marathoner, Daf Yomi participant, Wordler, vexillologist, halvah aficionado, author of parody haggadot (you may have some), and a sit-down comedian.

Gital Dodelson, the “chained” woman featured on the front page of the New York Post last fall, says she has received a get, or... Two relatives of the man who has refused to give his wife a religious ...

In Israel and in much of the Western world, we tend to think the Arab world is united in its support for the Palestinians—that it wants nothing more than to solve the Palestinian problem by giving ...

The Dutchess County Conservative Party was promoting a new governor for next year. The sign “Retire Hochul” said it all. In a bucolic setting at the northern end of the Metro-North’s Hudson line, ...

19 people were killed on the #32A bus in Gilo, Jerusalem from a suicide bomber. 74 people were wounded. June 18, 2002. The terrorists slated for release as part of hostage deal, directly due to the ...

In this January 22, 1958 correspondence to Dr. Horst Salomon, director of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic, Otto Nosson Klemperer writes: I feel compelled to tell you personally how deeply I regret that I ...

In the image displayed on the jump page of this article, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka “Dr. Seuss” has written opposite the title page in The Lorax: “A good friend of the Jewish Community Centers of South ...