My Question I was born in a Jewish home and brought up in the traditions of my people, Israel. In our home the Sabbath was faithfully kept. On Friday night, as the sun went down, my mother would bentchen licht (light the Sabbath candles), and my father would say the Kiddish (prayer for the Sabbath). …
Educated in Rabbinical Schools FOR MANY YEARS Poland was the main European reservoir of Jewish orthodoxy, and had one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. Until shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, it was also an area of great missionary activity. Warsaw was the chief center of Jewish population, …
Alan Binger is a 58 year old Jewish attorney, who grew up in White Plains, New York, a suburb of New York City. He was bar mitzvahed at age 13 at Temple Israel, a conservative synagogue located in White Plains. In 1971, at the age of 19, while he was a student at Penn State …
