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What does a 68-year-old Conservative Jewish man from Cranford, New Jersey have in common with a 42 year old Hasidic man originally from London? A kidney. Earlier this year, Yosef Leib...

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Shabbos. The word connotes many wonderful memories from growing up: Going to shul with my father on Friday night; my mother’s fricassee; constructing blanket tents with my siblings. But in truth,...

“If you don’t speak up, you’re part of the problem.” This sentiment appears in my Facebook newsfeed fairly regularly, in response to whatever atrocity has most recently been perpetuated against whichever...

You may have heard of the tragic accident last week in which a train hit a garbage truck. The train was carrying Republican members of Congress, including House Speaker Paul Ryan,...

Perhaps you noticed the little problem at the start of Super Bowl LII: the NFL forgot to paint hash marks over the logos. Because the Super Bowl was in Minnesota, a...

It’s funny where we derive the lessons that stick with us. For example, a first-grade teacher might make an offhand comment that lasts a lifetime. I learned one such long-lasting lesson...

We all know the potential, in our age of email and texting, for the written word to be misunderstood in tone. I still remember the first email argument I got into...

This week is my oldest daughter’s bat mitzvah. As my husband is the rabbi of our shul, most of our congregation will be attending. Many of our congregants have attended bat...

I am telling the following true story with permission but I am changing the names. There are two players, one of whom isn’t even aware that she’s involved in this story....