This is my latest piece. As head of the marketing and PR committee for the Jewish Community Campus capital campaign, Ensuring Our Future, I have worked with Jill Ofer and the JCC’s graphic designer, Karen Babat, to create this piece. Unfortunately, the way I can post it here on the website doesn’t begin to do […]
I always imagined that I would get to say goodbye in print. At least that’s how I pictured it if I bothered to think that I might one day no longer be editing the local Jewish newspaper in Rockland County. There were times I thought I could go on doing that job forever. Certainly for […]
I was half listening to the announcements at the end of the Saturday morning service when something the rabbi was saying broke through the noise in my head. I was pretty sure I heard him announce that we could sell our chametz online. Immediately, I pictured a sort of eBay marketplace, where I could auction […]
The secular education of a chasidic pop star Most students at Rockland Community College have not had successful singing careers before they decide to get their associate degree. But Lipa Schmeltzer is definitely not most students. A bona fide superstar in the niche world of chasidic singers, Schmeltzer came to RCC as a bit of […]
I purchased a pair of boots from Zappos.com, the online retailer, but they just weren’t right. I wanted to return them, but I also wanted to check out another pair of boots. Complicating what could have been a straightforward exchange was that I had initially paid through Paypal, which charged my American Express card, and […]
Community mourns passing of Rabbi Louis Frishman Rabbi Louis Frishman, who came to Spring Valley in 1951 and built a small 150-member Reform congregation focused on social action and community involvement into a 900-member synagogue with a waiting list, died on Feb. 6 after a long illness. He was 89. He inspired his congregants to […]
