Rabbi Gedaliah Anemer, who helped found a major Orthodox community in suburban Washington, has died.
Anemer died of a stroke on April 22. He was 78.
He founded the Yeshiva of Greater Washington in 1964, helping to lay the groundwork for the Kemp Hill community in Silver Spring, Md.
Anemer, an Akron, Ohio native, also was respected nationally as a halachic authority and headed the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington, which functions as the area’s bet din, or rabbinical court.
In this new year, we must get out of our own way. God is waiting in the field…who are we to delay the process of return?
The comedian, currently appearing on Broadway in his solo show, “Take a Banana For the Ride,” is so well known for his appearances on celebrity roasts, he’s called “The Roastmaster General.”
As Adam S. Ferziger argues in his new book, “Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism,” those who move from the U.S. to the Holy Land have changed the very nature of religion in the Jewish state itself.
Good intentions should not blur moral clarity.
Ariel Yaakov Marciano, 24, was attacked this past Sunday at the Santa Monica Pier by a group of around 20 young men.
The movie is bursting with multiple characters and human hearts looking for a place to go, hearts that go through their own internal civil wars.
What happened after the Holocaust says a lot more about the Jews than what happened during the Holocaust.
The American flag deserves at least as much respect as Uncle Herschel in the Cracker Barrel logo.
In the midst of an ugly and hellish war zone, a soldier insists on retaining a relic of beauty, a relic of her normal life, a relic that reminds her that war doesn’t define her.
It almost makes sense, except that war never makes sense…
Today, what’s rotten in the state of Denmark is the integrity of the country’s leaders.
Huck’s journey was Twain’s journey, but it extended beyond humanizing the Blacks to the Jews as well.
