The Death of the Jewish Bronx
The Death of the Jewish Bronx
On many a Sunday when I was a child, I accompanied my father not to baseball games but to funerals. A rabbi, he officiated at these deathly occasions near and far, but mostly in the Bronx. This was the 1970s, and the Bronx—specifically the Jewish Bronx—was dying out. Those who remained in the…
Interview with R Francis Nataf
Traditional and Modern Jewish Bible Scholarship
An interview with Rabbi Francis Nataf by Yoel Schaper. The study of the Hebrew Bible occupies a central role in Judaism. As religious Jews, it is an eternal and sacred collection to us. But how relevant are medieval commentators to us today? And how can
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Brooklyn restaurant gives special needs teen great experience
A Brooklyn restaurant dished out a healthy serving of compassion for a family with a special-needs teen.
The symposium starts tonight
A Timely Look at Masorah
The second night of Pesach we started Sefirat HaOmer, each evening counting the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot. We all know that during the first 32 days of the counting of the Omer we hold by certain restrictions to reflect our sadness for the deaths of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students.
