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The Hippocratic Oath has been passed down through the ages because it contains some perennial wisdom: I will keep the sick from harm and injustice. I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asks for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect.
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9/21/18
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Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Jewish year. One of the highlights of the Rosh Hashanah worship service is the sounding of the shofar, a ram’s horn.
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9/5/18
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Why is it so hard to apologize? On the High Holy Days, Jewish people are called upon by God to seek out people we have wronged and ask forgiveness for what we have done to them, or failed to do for them.
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9/5/18
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre wrote a message delving into a Passover tradition.
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By Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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3/28/18
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Rabbi Andrew Warmflash offered his thoughts about Hanukkah, which is observed from Dec. 12 through 20 this year.
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12/6/17
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Rabbi Sandra Bellush offered her reflections on Hanukkah, which begins Dec. 12.
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12/6/17
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Rosh Hashanah, the joyous Jewish celebration of the New Year, is followed eight days later by Yom Kippur, a solemn day of fasting and soul-wrenching introspection. What is the connection between …
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By Rabbi Andrew Warmflash
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9/14/17
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As Jews around the world gather on the evening of Sept. 20 to welcome the New Year of 5778, our usual joy and celebration will be diminished by the memory of what took place in August in …
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By Rabbi Sandra Bellush
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9/14/17
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Gathering with family and friends for our Passover Seders is rooted in the verse from Exodus that reads “And you shall explain to your son on that day, 'It is because of what God did for me when I went free from Egypt.' (Exodus 13:8) The Talmudic exhortation that “in every generation a person is obligated to regard himself as if he personally had gone forth from Egypt” (Pesachim 116b) helps us understand both our own history and, perhaps, a bit of what modern refugees experience today.
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4/6/17
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After a bomb threat called in to the Mid-Island Jewish Community Center in Plainview on Feb. 27 — the second to centers of its kind in Nassau County this year — police announced heightened patrols around the county’s religious institutions and have launched a full investigation.
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By Ben Strack and Mike Smollins
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3/8/17
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