It may be getting harder to have faith in Queens' Jewish community. Dwindling membership and a tough economy have led to mergers and closures of Qu...
Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."
Rabbi Leah and Rabbi Perry Berkowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
You can't practice Judaism with your grandfather's heart but must approach these days with a new, fresh, different and vibrant style that speaks to someone who lives and struggles in the 21st Century.
New York Daily News | By Rocco Parascandola | Posted 10.17.2009 | New York
This guy sure has chutzpah. A career criminal befriended by rabbis at a Brooklyn Heights synagogue - who gave him food and money - returned the fav...
Lauren Cahn | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I tried to believe in nothing. And I failed.
AP | HUSSEIN DAKROUB | Posted 09.05.2009 | World
BEIRUT — Laborers have torn down the disintegrating roof, cleared the debris and erected scaffolding, showing Wednesday that the long delayed re...
Kimberly Brooks | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
There was my father on a huge screen next to the platform in the center of the synagogue. He said, "I always wanted to attend my own funeral. Well...I'm here!"
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.27.2009 | Style
Many of us find the Synagogue services oppressive and stultifying. They're too formal, too long, too boring. Nobody said that there shouldn't be a stimulating and satisfying social portion of a Synagogue.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
The worn four story buildings in Krakow overlooking the cafe where my family dines must once have housed families like my own.
BBC | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
Armed men broke into the building last week and daubed slogans including "Jews get out" on the walls before destroying religious objects. Critics of ...
Harut Sassounian | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
American-Jewish organizations, which had for years supported Turkey's agenda on the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Congress, were incensed by Turkish condemnations of Israel.
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living
When families light Hanukkah candles this evening, will the women light too? Jewish, Christian and Muslim women assume that that they're forbidden from leadership roles, when they are not.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.
Larry Gellman | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
It was appropriate that outrage be expressed during those hearings, but the criticism should have been directed from Paulson to the members of Congress.
nydailynews.com | By Clare Trapasso | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York