M y father, Melvin S. Landow z”l, grew up impoverished, in a tenement in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. From the age of nine, he worked to help support his family, offering his services first as a shoeshine boy, then delivering newspapers, then as a “barker” at the famed Coney Island amusement park. (His trademark “bark”
On a cattle ranch somewhere in the Golan, a red calf has been born that may have an impact on the future of the entire Jewish people. Is it possible that this Red Angus cow, now over a year old and still unblemished, will be the tenth and final parah adumah?
How long will the overwhelming number of America’s Jews — other than the Orthodox — remain, like lemmings, loyal to the Democratic Party?
The Holocaust survivors struggling to scratch out a living during the week, became kings in shul on Shabbos