Columnist Jane Ulman explains how the high holidays are a time for parents to reflect on how they to help their children make sound choices, control their bad inclination and become solid Jewish citizens.
Despite complaints from survivors and others that money from the sale of heirless Jewish property in Germany should be used exclusively for the care of needy, aging survivors, the board of the organization that controls those funds voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to continue allocating 20 percent for educational purposes. But opponents of the move vowed to […]
For seven years Gwendolyn Graham had made the 35-minute Sabbath walk from her home in Mill Basin to the Young Israel of Vanderveer Park, a diverse Brooklyn congregation known for welcoming black converts like herself to Judaism. Noting that the synagogue’s rabbi, Joseph Rosenbluh, often lamented "the way some white Jews look at Jews of […]
