B'yachad

When my wife Carolyn’s mother, Sylvia Spellun, died on June 14 th , we sat shiva for a week in our Upper East Side apartment and were visit...

One of my favorite books is Rabbi Alan Lew’s book on the High Holidays called This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of A...

In Parashat Matot (Numbers 33), the Israelites are ready to begin the conquest of the land. We learn that the tribes of Reuben and Gad tell...

Growing up in Springfield, Ohio, I did not have much of a Hebrew vocabulary. When the High Holidays were upon us people would say “Good Yun...

Some friends asked me if it was a little late for such a celebration at my age. Since I am in the synagogue ritual business I felt compel...

I spent three years in Jackson, Mississippi from 1977-80 as the manager of one of our family’s production plants. That was less than 15 yea...

In the New York Times on May 11, 2015, Dave Itzkoff wrote, “David Letterman’s departure is in some ways the end of an era in late night te...