It’s Yom Kippur—take the opportunity to spend time with family pondering past wrongs and starting the year 5773 on the right foot. As The Observer has reported, the city’s top power shuls include the Modern Orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue (home to Lenny Kravitz and Ronald Perelman), the Conservative Park Avenue Synagogue (see you there, Read More
It is hard to know which is the greater affront: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lecturing the world about the rule of law, as he did at the United Nations on Sept. 24, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spewing his anti-Semitic trash on Yom Kippur, as he was scheduled to do before the General Assembly on Sept. 26.
In either case, the U.N. once again demonstrated its institutional contempt for Israel. Read More
Eric Yaverbaum has more than a few techo-sins to account for: ignoring his wife, tucking his kids into bed by text message, sleeping with his Blackberry cradled under his chin. This Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of atonement, Yaverbaum is asking the world to join him in repentance by disconnnecting from the digital world. Read More
