When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast some months ago, destroying many neighborhoods in its path, quite a few with large frum populations, I…
The pursuit of work-life balance is, of course, not a uniquely Jewish issue. Only recently, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, unleashed a…
“The more connected we become, the lonelier we are,” laments the author of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” a fascinating article that recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. And indeed,…
Back in the 1950s and 60s, I don’t recall there being any labels identifying one’s religiosity. You were either observant or non-observant. In Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, which was in Williamsburg…
I often recall my childhood days, growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the Fifties and Sixties. Many of us were children of survivors—those heroic individuals who came…
As I sit down to write this message in early November, the front page of today’s New York Times blares, “Report Shows a Mere 80,000 Jobs Added in US in…
This issue was a particularly difficult one to work on. Reading the personal reminiscences of family members who lost loved ones, poring over first person-accounts of those who were there,…
In recent months, I have grown accustomed to using the GPS in my car. Traveling to distant places, I still find it remarkable that every time I make a wrong…
