Rosh Hashanah begins this year on Sunday night, September 29. Chabad of Yonkers will hold services at 6:30 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. community dinner. Services on Monday, Sept. 30, and Tuesday, October 1, will begin at 10 a.m., with children’s services at 11 a.m., and shofar blowing at 11:30 a.m.

Please contact the Chabad of Yonkers/Greystone Jewish Center

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is a time of reflection, a time of spirituality. For many people, tefillah, community and family feel like a warm embrace. To others, such as those experiencing infertility, these can feel more like a straitjacket.

I always ask my patients about their religious

In the food and “foodie”-centric world in which we live there are numerous terms you will likely hear bandied about as the latest and greatest food creations to come forth. It was pointed out to me how sad it is that there is more money to be made by scientists in finding a new artificial sweetener with no calories than there

Most people don’t think about their keys that much, except when they lay down for an afternoon nap.

“Ouch!”

The thing about key chains is that they’re designed to dig into you. You’re basically carrying around a ring of tiny saws in your pocket. I use mine

Long before “simanim” were trendy, when I was growing up we always had a “Rosh Hashanah seder” complete with apples and honey, pomegranates, dates, black-eyed peas, spinach, leeks and of course fish heads. We recited a yehi ratzon before eating each siman, read from the small, cracking black siddur that my

On Sunday, September 9, Rabbi Sruli Deitsch of the Chabad of Bronxville presented a shofar factory workshop for the Young Israel of New Rochelle Youth Department. YINR was only one of Rabbi Deitsch’s stops in the month of Elul preparing children and their parents for Rosh Hashanah.

On Wednesday, September 4, SAR Academy opened its 2019-2020 academic year. A significant change at SAR this year is the school’s expanded Hebrew immersion program for its youngest students. This program began three years ago with just the kindergarten classes. It has now been extended to include the entire Early Learning Center

As Batsheva Rosen Weisinger described it, she’s had a vision since her days in seminary of an innovative project that would benefit people in need in Jerusalem while also cutting down on unnecessary waste. When the opportunity presented itself years later, she and her husband, Zevi, knew they had to

Eighty years ago, half a world away, Europe was embroiled in war as German tanks ripped through Poland. Whining, low-flying Stuka planes struck terror, and Warsaw burned. WWII had begun. Hitler’s intimidation, which had won him Czechoslovakia and Austria, now turned into a deadly conflict. 

With the

(Courtesy of AMIT) AMIT is kicking off the new school year with wonderful news: The network has been named the #1 educational network in Israel by the prestigious newspaper TheMarker, based on Education Ministry data, for the third year in a row.

The Education Ministry rates educational networks

I got the feeling that I don’t take my kids to the dentist often enough when, on their way out of their latest appointment, they were handed toothbrushes, and one of them said, “That’s not a prize. I already have a toothbrush.”

So clearly we’re missing something.

Editor’s note: Susan Borger served as director of personnel and human resources for the Orthodox Union from 1991 through 2006.  She was commuting to work on the last subway train to enter the World Trade Center before its collapse on the morning of 9-11-2001.  Susan passed away in November 2018 after a three year battle with