Rachel Zamist has lived in the Passaic community for the past 32 years and has watched it grow and transition. She is the beaming mother of Mimi, a student at Rachel’s own alma mater, YBH.

Eating a balanced, nutritious diet is important for leading a healthy lifestyle, but for those following a kosher diet, finding the time and resources to ...

Farshtayst du Yiddish? Do you understand Yiddish? As the ads all say, you don’t have to understand Yiddish to farshtay and enjoy, really enjoy, “Fiddler Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn will ...

This summer, while many children may be running away from school and books, I hope to make reading fun. I will be busy learning and ...

Lessons for life—and politics—from the mortally wounded. There are very relevant lessons to be derived from a discussion of daf 43 in the Gemara of ...

During my training to become an addiction therapist, one of the requirements was to attend a support group. Naturally, I began searching for a Jewish-specific ...

Anthony Awerbuch is a certified Body Language Trainer and an expert in facial expression identification. He has been featured on the “That’s Life” radio show and in various local publications. Anthony ...

Highlighting: “Blurred Vision (Dark-Cult Survivor, Book One),” by Susan L. Rosenbluth. Red Adept Publishing. July 2026.

This summer, on a trip to Eretz Yisrael, I visited the Feldheim seforim store and came across a wonderful set of books, which ...

The custom to read the Torah at night on Simchat Torah (ST) is very unusual. At no other time during the year is the Torah read at night. Our first question will be how this custom arose. The next ...

For more than a decade, Pessie Schlafrig has helped patients and families navigate some of the most complicated moments of ...

The greatest intelligence failure would not be missing Iran’s collapse. It would be failing to prepare for what comes afterward. Intelligence services are trained to detect threats before they ...