3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (673+ words) Every year on the 25th of Elul, while Jews around the world recite Selichot and prepare for Rosh Hashanah, my family marks the yahrzeit of my Zeidi, Rabbi Dr. Avraham Mordechai Hershberg, zt”l. I never had the privilege of meeting…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (206+ words) The Jewish Link Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Visits Chabad-Rutgers as the School Year Begins (Courtesy of Rutgers Chabad) The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rishon LeZion Chacham David Yosef, visited and prayed morning services on Sept. 4 with students at…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (367+ words) A few minutes before he was due on stage at Las Vegas’ Venetian for his Republican Jewish Coalition speech, Congressman Randy Fine sat down with me. The gala crowd was already drifting toward the ballroom. I was trying to hurry,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (544+ words) (Courtesy of Orthodox Union) In Lodz, Poland, currently home to roughly 100 Jews, keeping kosher can require far more than checking for a familiar symbol on a package. Kosher products are available, said resident Dawid Gurfinkiel but the options are limited....

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (170+ words) With Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish High Holiday season approaching, Bergen County law enforcement officials, community leaders and rabbis gathered in Hackensack last week for the county’s annual High Holiday safety and security briefing. This year’s gathering took on particular…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (390+ words) Israel is at the center of my DNA. I met my wife Frieda while a graduate student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After many visits to Israel, we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary by taking our children, daughter-in-law and grandchildren…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (321+ words) The Jewish Link Congressman Pallone Meets with Jewish Leaders and Elected Officials Dozens of Jewish community leaders and elected leaders from towns in NJ’s 6th Congressional district came together on Friday morning September 4th to thank their U.S. Representative, Congressman Frank Pallone,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (660+ words) In the aftermath of Oct. 7, when so many people were searching for ways to help Israel, a group of volunteers at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale—the Bayit—found a way with yarn, needles, hooks and their own two hands....

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (221+ words) (Courtesy of Religious Zionists of America) Pace Cooper of Memphis will serve as the new president of the RZA, leading a strong slate of national board and executive board members. In accepting the presidency, Cooper reflected on the opportunity to…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (296+ words) Part of that was not up to him. He came down with pneumonia, leaving him bedridden for two months, and then sustained a back injury that took over a year to correct. The move to Teaneck happened somewhere in the…...