Chairman's Message
When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast some months ago, destroying many neighborhoods in…
The pursuit of work-life balance is, of course, not a uniquely Jewish issue. Only recently, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman…
“The more connected we become, the lonelier we are,” laments the author of “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” a fascinating…
Back in the 1950s and 60s, I don’t recall there being any labels identifying one’s religiosity. You were either observant…
I often recall my childhood days, growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the Fifties and Sixties. Many…
As I sit down to write this message in early November, the front page of today’s New York Times blares,…
This issue was a particularly difficult one to work on. Reading the personal reminiscences of family members who lost loved…
In recent months, I have grown accustomed to using the GPS in my car. Traveling to distant places, I still…
I consider myself to be fairly well plugged into twenty-first-century technology. I have a BlackBerry; own several desktop computers and…
In 1919, a wave of anti-Semitic pogroms, led by Polish peasants and soldiers, took place in Jewish towns throughout Western…
Judaism is an optimistic religion. While Jewish history is replete with exiles, pogroms and destruction, it is also rich with…
