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I spent an incredible Shabbos in Great Neck with the Persian community

The 53,000-square-foot Friendship Circle of New Jersey (FCNJ) is unlike anything I’ve seen before

Just as Moshe Rabeinu’s birthday and Yahrzeit are on the same day, so, too, Rabbi Dahan was decreed to be taken from us on his birthday. One year since his passing

“Yakov, in his short life in This World, succeeded in becoming a walking kiddush Hashem”

I didn’t know what else to say. Poor Asher! How would I feel if I was suddenly cut off from Yoel and Yom Tov and Tulli and all my friends?

So, can it really be…? No! It seems I was wrong to suspect Shuki. I don’t want to risk suspecting Asher wrongly too

Would we spend the rest of our lives wondering why we’d hadn’t contacted the myriad of magical figures living in our midst?

Venerable individuals still among us share their recollections of personal encounters with yesteryear's giants