By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
In order to say the Shehecheyanu prayer (which thanks God for sustaining us and allowing us to reach this new season) on the second night of Rosh Hashanah, people either wear new clothing or serve a food they’ve not eaten since the previous year. For me, the summe…
By Reporter staff
A variety of Jewish groups are offering educational and recreational online resources. Below is a sampling of those. The Reporter will publish additional listings as they become available.
The Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy will hold the virtual program “Straight …
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
Reverberations from World War II have continued throughout the decades, but, when novelists deal with these echoes, they often focus on very different aspects. Take, for example, two recent novels: Joss Weiss offers a dystopian version of the United States in the 19…
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman
I have an eclectic taste in books. Sorry, eclectic was a high school vocabulary word that I fell in love with: it’s just a fancy way of saying I like to read a wide variety of books. Years ago, there was bookstore on Washington Avenue in Endicott. The salesman an…
By Bill Simons
There are newspaper front pages that you never forget. In my lifetime, the headlines following the assassination of JFK and the 9/11 attack remain indelible. So, too, does page 1 of the Sunday, October 31, 1965, issue of The New York Times. Articles concerning the final days…
