This beautifully designed coffee-table book describes the hard work of the pioneers and founders of the synagogues, schools and communal services in a neighborhood that today has become one of the premier Orthodox Jewish communities in the greater New York metropolitan area, and by extension, in the United States.
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Flowers in the Desert: The Early History and Growth of Orthodox Judaism in the Five Towns
Kesser Dovid: The Halachic Guide to Dentistry
When I left yeshivah and began dental school almost thirty years ago, several of my friends remarked that I had chosen a “good” field because there are not too many halachic issues to contend with in dentistry. Within the first few days I realized that this was simply not...
Reviews in Brief: Spring 2019
is keenly aware of the challenges of loneliness, the temptations of cynicism, the subtle yet insidious subversion of Torah values we face every day.