THERE’S A giant rally in memory of Yitzhak Rabin and in support of Jewish unity and Mideast peace scheduled at Madison Square Garden this Sunday. But Rabbi Abraham Hecht tells me he won’t be there. It ...

Rabbi Abraham B. Hecht, an Ashkenazi who led a Sephardic congregation and was also closely affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, died Saturday night at 90. He was a passionate advocate of ...

A Hamden rabbi is paying it forward in a special way as we head into the new year. Rabbi Moshe Hecht of Chabad of Hamden established the kindness campaign by planning to give out small yellow boats ...

BEACHWOOD -- Officials, alumni, parents, students and friends of Fuchs Mizrachi School said goodbye Sunday (Aug. 29) to Rabbi Pinchos Hecht, who has led the school into a new state-of-the-art facility ...

The shocking statistics of fatal heroin overdoses being reported on the front pages of our local newspapers increasingly reflect the heartbreaking scourge of drugs and opioid dependency so prevalent ...

Monday, Tu B’Av (July 22), marked the 23 rd yahrzeit of late Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, a world-renowned communal rabbi and chinuch activist who inspired many with his books and talks. Rabbi Hecht had a ...

The debate over the arcane Orthodox ritual of kapparot – in which Jews ritually sacrifice chickens as they purge themselves of their sins before Yom Kippur – has turned into a snarling dog fight ...

Rabbi Mendy Hecht is the rabbi of Orchard Street Shul in New Haven, CT. This week’s Torah Portion- Parashat Tetzaveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) – continues giving us the instructions concerning the ...