NYJW Opinion

I know madness; I know it intimately. As president of NYU-Bellevue Psychiatric Alumni, having served on Bellevue’s Teaching Faculty since 1978, I recognize crazy, even when it’s an ocean away. Murdering as many innocent people, as quickly as you can, is madness. Terrorists, no matter their origin, or motive, are crazy. But aren’t they cold […]

Since 1990, Orthodoxy in America has departed in dramatic fashion from patterns displayed by the other religious denominations and in fact, since 1990, the number of Orthodox Jewish congregants in the U.S. has at least doubled, the Jewish engagement indicators have moved higher, and their average age has declined. These striking trends emerge from comparing the […]