We like sitting in the back of the shul where it is quiet, there is less clamor, more privacy, and where you can just be introspective and daven. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are long days in shul. Yom Kippur, as you are certainly well aware, is a full day in shul that no one […]
Year In Israel By Josiah N. Gampel As soon as I completed the last of my AP exams in my senior year at DRS, I was ready to graduate and head to camp. Since the sixth grade, I have attended Yeshivas HaKayitz in Skokie, Illinois. My time in Kayitz has always been the highlight of […]
Some of my sons and sons-in-law know how to cook a mean cholent. It might be the same young men who can also whip together a great-tasting as well as perfect-looking potato kugel. One of my boys is an expert at making chicken poppers, spiced just right. I’m sure I’m missing some aspects of their […]
He is perhaps as close as we can get to what is really going on in Washington, DC. That is a Friday morning meeting sponsored by NORPAC here in the Five Towns featuring leading Republican Senator and past presidential candidate, Ted Cruz. It was a relatively intimate setting, that is a small group about 70 people with […]
The next time you're walking around uptown Saint John, don't forget to look up. Hidden in obscure alleyways and side streets are traces of centuries of history.