Yigal M. Gross

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Apr 28, 2024, 6:35 AM

The TDMC Needs a Refresh

In a recent post on Blue Teaneck, a progressive Facebook Group, commentator Bill Orr posted that a large number of challengers filed petitions to run for seats on the Teaneck Democratic Municipal Committee (“TDMC”) in this year’s June 4th...

Nov 10, 2023, 10:43 PM

In Defense of Doxing College Students

Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman recently observed that “t is pathetic that we need to rely on law firms and corporations to police antisemitism on campus.” His comments come in the wake of corporations and law firms withdrawing job...

Oct 26, 2023, 1:28 AM

Israel’s War – Responses to Common Anti-Israel Arguments

Hamas’s barbaric attacks on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023 have prompted a spike in anti-Israel activism all over the United States, including on American college campuses and at governmental settings, including the United States Capitol and local councils...

Mar 7, 2019, 7:40 AM

Don’t Unsettle our Community to Settle Debates—A Response to Rabbi Pruzansky

Dear Rabbi Pruzansky, I appreciated your letter to the Jewish Link in which you defended the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County’s passage of a bylaw that would expel the rabbi of Netivot Shalom if he were to continue training female...

Feb 10, 2019, 7:55 AM

An Open Letter to the RCBC

Dear Rabbi Schiowitz, I read your letter to the community on behalf of the RCBC with a profound sense of appreciation and respect. Our community is fortunate to have leaders like you who care about communal unity and harmony. At...

Jan 31, 2019, 7:52 AM

The RCBC decertifies communal debate

It's not (just) about women rabbis -- no synagogue should cede its policy-making and hiring decisions to an external body

Dec 26, 2016, 8:57 PM

America’s Lame Dove

“America abstains” is a rather elegant synopsis of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Historians have their categorical buzzwords for different phases of American foreign policy. Prior to World War I, America was interventionist. During the 1930’s, America was isolationist. And...

Jul 14, 2016, 7:48 AM

Yeshiva day schools: Give parents a choice

To solve the sky-high cost of Jewish education, offer a part time option with public school covering secular studies

Jun 24, 2016, 10:44 AM

The Yeshiva Day School System — Costs and Considerations

One of the things that I appreciate the most about working with colleagues with backgrounds that are differ from my own -- religiously, ethnically, nationally and politically -- is being able to get an outsider’s perspective on Jewish communal issues. Recently,...

Jan 7, 2016, 10:25 AM

A boy looks down at El Al jets parked on the tarmac of Ben Gurion International Airport (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel is where religion and air travel meet, but not always for the good

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About Me

Yigal M. Gross is an attorney who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey with his wife Tamar Warburg and their children Ella, Sara, Yonatan, Aviva and Norman.