Ray Kelly, the police commissioner who should be the next mayor of New York, seems to show you his best in the city’s worst moments. This he did the other day when he stood at a podium with the department crest in front of him and uniforms behind him, speaking of the murder of an [...]

Dear Readers, The recent calamity that took place in our community has had a permanent effect on each and every one of us without exception. In one way or other we were all embarrassed, inspired or traumatized by the last week’s inexplicable cold-blooded murder of an innocent young boy by one of our own. Klal Yisroel is [...]

Dear Readers, The recent calamity that took place in our community has had a permanent effect on each and every one of us without exception. In one way or other we were all embarrassed, inspired or traumatized by the last week’s inexplicable cold-blooded murder of an innocent young boy by one of our own. Klal Yisroel is [...]

[By David Mandel] As we go into shabbos let us be thankful for the gift we have that we are unable to listen to news reports nor read any websites or blogs. We should enjoin ourselves from reading newspapers as well. We need this respite. Our minds, hearts and emotions need a break from the repetitive horror [...]

[By Shlomo Katz]  So it is Erev Shabbos and I don’t have time to write. But my heart is broken and my eyes have spilled with tears too many times in the last few days. One of our babies was taken to Hashem and is now basking in the glow of the Kisei Hakovod. May Ha [...]

I don’t know a name for this article. How do you name an article about the devastation that has occurred in our community? What title can you give it? It has surpassed the words tragedy, incomprehensible, unbelievable, disaster, horror and so on. It’s Erev Shabbos and I’m supposed to be cooking. How can I be [...]

[By Mendel Klein] We are all still in shock. Leiby Kletzky, a young boy from our community is not with us anymore. He was only 9 years old. He wanted to be a big boy. He wanted to walk home from summer camp alone. But he got lost walking the streets of his Brooklyn neighborhood. Trying to find [...]

[By Rabbi Y. Eisenman ] All of us, – Jew and Gentile – have been traumatized by the events of this past week. Personally, I feel as if I have been hurt and violated in a way that I cannot recall in my entire life. So many of the ‘assumptions and truths’ which allowed me to function with [...]

[By Bracha Goetz] Our children all over the world were praying for Leiby to be protected.  Instead Leiby is now able to help all these same children be more protected.  The children were asked to daven, and so afterward they asked what happened.  Our pure and innocent korbon is finally enabling many other innocent children to learn [...]

[By Asher E. Taub, Esq.] This September 13, 2011, an election of historic proportion will take place in the 9th Congressional District of New York. The 9th CD is the most Jewish district in the entire United States. Approximately 50% of the district is Jewish.  30% of the registered voters are religious Jews. The district includes the Jewish [...]