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As spring arrives, Jewish families around the world begin preparing for Passover. Kitchens are scrubbed, shelves are cleared and all chametz (leavened bread) is removed from the home. While this intense cleaning may seem unusual, the physical...
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BY YEHUDA HEBER
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4/4/26
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For several years when my daughter was little, between the ages of 4 and 7, I kept a bowl of mini marshmallows on our Passover table.
It was not part of the traditional ritual meal. It was simply a parenting strategy. Every time she or one of the...
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4/4/26
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My childhood memories surrounding Easter centered around family.
We would have a family gathering at one of three places: our home in North Bergen, N.J., my aunt and uncle’s home in the Bronx, or my other uncle and aunt’s home in River Edge, N.J....
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BY PAUL HAVILAND
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4/4/26
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The murder of Sheridan Gorman — a Yorktown High School graduate killed in Chicago — isn’t a distant headline for our readers. It’s a name they recognize, a family they know, a grief that needs no explanation.
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No one can truly understand what that phone call felt like. The kind of call that stops time. The kind of call that no parent, no family, should ever have to receive. In a single moment, everything …
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3/30/26
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After the cold stretch last week, I’m looking outside having the same thought I have every year around this time: I cannot do one more weekend of acting like I’m perfectly happy being indoors.
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BY ROBIN MURPHY
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3/27/26
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Happy start of spring! After an intense winter here in Westchester, the warmer weather is a welcome change. As everything begins to thaw, many families are turning their attention to spring break, but I’m already looking ahead to summer.
In...
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BY ERICA TERRY
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3/27/26
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Recently, a very close friend gave me an important book: The Discourses of Epictetus.
That amazing book opened my eyes to the incredible world of Stoicism. Today, Stoicism stands as one of the most enduring and influential philosophical...
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3/27/26
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Many are of the belief that because they have several million dollars’ worth of assets (including their home(s), savings accounts, and retirement monies), they...
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BY ANTHONY J. ENEA
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3/27/26
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The other night I was changing channels to find something to watch on TV.
I found an old black and white episode of the Andy Griffith Show centered around Sheriff Andy Taylor, his young son, Opie, and their Aunt Bee. This homey old-time sitcom...
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3/27/26
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Dear Dr. Linda,
PAPERS, PAPERS, and more PAPERS!!!
My sixth-grade son’s backpack is a mess of papers! He has five binders jammed into his backpack and each one is overloaded with papers. Some of the papers are in the rings in the binders and...
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3/27/26
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Alfred North Whitehead, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, famously announced in 1929, “the safest general characterization of European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
In other words, all...
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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3/27/26
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I didn't get to watch much of the Olympics this year, which makes me uniquely qualified to deliver an uniformed yet unbiased account of the major stories.
I did manage to see coverage of the curling events almost EVERY time I turned on the...
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3/27/26
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Congressman Lawler’s moderation is just an act
Dear Editor,
In the wake of the recent brutality and cold blooded executions by ICE of two U.S. citizens, Congressman Mike Lawler saw his popularity beginning to wane. No one can accuse this most...
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3/27/26
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Don’t blame renewables for rising electric costs
Dear Editor,
I’ve been enjoying Don Scott’s articles in your paper. But I’m writing to provide another perspective to his recent 100-foot rule opinion piece ("The most regressive tax you've never...
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3/27/26
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My son is Mike (the original was Michael, and ordained by me, his mother, never to be shortened).
When he was in second grade, however, he was asked to fill in a form with his full proper name. When he came home from school that day, he asked me...
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3/27/26
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We are fortunate to live in a community that is, by nearly every measurable standard, safer than most in the country.
Putnam County and Northern Westchester benefit from strong public institutions, responsive law enforcement, engaged civic...
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BY PIAGET SOLPIAGET
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3/27/26
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It takes years of training and thousands of dollars worth of equipment to get up onstage. Underpaying musicians hurts everyone.
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BY DUKE COVONE
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3/27/26
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With elections coming up this year, I felt it was appropriate to ask a philosophical question: what yardstick should we use to decide whom to support?
Of course, many of us vote by party affiliation. However, for the purposes of this exercise,...
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BY JAMES MARTORANO
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3/27/26
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As a baby boomer, I am essentially a living meme for technological incompetence. Clichés are clichés for a reason.
Back when this newspaper was still being run out of a brick-and-mortar office, I relied heavily on my...
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3/27/26
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