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May 5, 2024, 6:11 PM

At Shabbat services this past Friday evening at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, New York, Rabbi Dan Geffen chose a passage from the prayer book by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel for the congregation to read together. “We are a...

Nov 15, 2023, 4:06 AM

And Now, It’s Our Son, the Judge

And now, it’s our son, the judge. Our son, Adam Grossman, was appointed a town justice in the Town of Southampton yesterday. He has been active in governmental affairs on Long Island for more than three decades. He was Riverhead Town...

Oct 14, 2023, 1:13 AM

Rally in Solidarity with Israel

“No I’m not OK! That’s how I want to respond when people ask me how I’m doing,” said Rabbi Josh Franklin opening a “Rally in Solidarity with Israel” held Wednesday evening at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in...

Jul 30, 2023, 8:06 PM

On the film Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

Oppenheimer, the movie just released about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, is a great film, extraordinary, as most movie reviews are accurately saying, and so, so important. Causing the formation of the Manhattan Project was a letter from...

Nov 21, 2022, 12:47 AM

Camp Siegfried – a play and a place of Nazi hate

With the opening of a play off-Broadway in Manhattan titled “Camp Siegfried,” what was a major Nazi center for Nazis in the New York area in years before World War II — Camp Siegfried, in the middle of Long...

Sep 9, 2022, 7:34 AM

’50 Years A Doctor’

A physician long active in the New York Metropolitan Area has written a candid and remarkably honest book titled 50 Years A Doctor, The Journey of Sickness and Health, Four Plagues and the Pandemic. Ronald Halweil, MD, raised in a...

Aug 11, 2022, 8:47 PM

‘In the very air we breathed’

Holocaust survivor Maritza Shelley with author and writing teacher Randi Dickson have penned a powerful book, In the Very Air We Breathed. Maritza lives in Brooklyn and Sag Harbor on Long Island, NY. Randi lives in the town next...

Mar 25, 2022, 11:00 PM

When Hitler could have been overthrown

When the 'Jewish James Bond' explains how even Hitler didn't have to be Hitler and the West can still stop Putin's tyranny, you believe him

Jun 15, 2021, 7:45 PM

Hooray for MK Alon Tal

The diversity of the new government of Israel importantly includes a leading Israeli environmentalist — Alon Tal — as a member of the Knesset. Tal, the author of the landmark book Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of...

Mar 3, 2021, 6:59 PM

‘Becoming a soulful parent’

“Becoming a Soulful Parent, A path to the wisdom within” is the title of an important and beautiful book by Dasee Berkowitz. Published by Kasva Press, author Abigail Pogrebin writes in a series of tributes in its opening pages...

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Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York at Old Westbury who has specialized in investigative reporting for more than 50 years. He is the host of the TV program “Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman,” (http://envirovideo.com), the writer and presenter of numerous TV documentaries and author of seven books.

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