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Where Do We Go From Here? By Rabbi Zev Goldberg | April 29, 2021 The past year has been filled with challenges. With each storm cloud there is a silver lining. One of the silver linings in the Bergen County community has been the unprecedented level of communal unity. From the very beginning of the pandemic, our community has rallied together. Shuls acted in unison to close in March of 2020 and months later opened together, cautiously and deliberately. While each shul followed the guidance of its medical committee, there was a general commitment to acting in loc...

Today, when so many parts of our machaneh in Klal Yisrael are causing a chillul Hashem, we must stand up and say “ad kan, enough”   Nothing Controversial About It [Outlook / Issue 847] I would like to salute Yonoson Rosenblum for his amazing column on kiddush Hashem. I am sure there were naysayers who said not to print his column since it may be controversial. May I suggest that there is nothing controversial about kiddush kavod Shamayim. The baalei mussar expound on the pasuk in Vayikra 22:32, where the Torah says we should not desecrate Hashem’s name and Hashem will become kadosh. T...

He is the man whose new sefer on Chumash must adorn my seforim shrank   I recently realized that along with my beard filling to the brim with white, my seforim shelves have become filled with more seforim. Therefore, I have now curbed my addiction to seforim. A friend who also suffers from Compulsive Seforim Disorder suggested we start a 12-step program called Seforim Buyers Anonymous. Thankfully, however, without therapy nor medication, I have been able to keep the compulsion in check, and I rarely purchase a new sefer these days. When I do purchase a new sefer, it has to be unique. The sef...

Two brothers, two schools, one mission: Rabbi Baruch And Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Rothman steer their yeshivos through the storm Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab On the last day of camp at Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway this past August, Rabbis Jeff and Baruch Rothman were on hand as boys in shorts were massed on the front steps waiting for pickup. Slowly they disappeared, a few candy wrappers and the occasional abandoned N-95 mask the only evidence of their presence. But Darchei parents Rabbi Baruch Rothman, Darchei Torah’s director of institutional advancement, and his brother Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey R...