NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- It's the trip of a lifetime for a Brooklyn-born rabbi who brought his family all the way back from California to have his son's bar mitzvah in Crown Heights. But it was no easy ...

Yitzi Hurwitz has plenty of reasons not to have a sense of humor. There’s nothing funny about a young, energetic husband, father of seven and rabbi being struck with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

I needed some good ideas for a talk I was preparing on the parsha of the week, so I asked my friend Yitzi Hurwitz if he had anything. I’m a big fan of his blog, where he weighs in every week with his ...

Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz is as much a rock star as a Hasidic Jew can be. He writes regular Torah commentary for L’Chaim, a weekly newsletter distributed to schools and shuls run by the Orthodox Jewish ...

Google Dina Hurwitz. You may find a video of a poised, articulate, lovely woman speaking before thousands of fellow Chabad emissaries at their convention in 2016, or before an attentive crowd at a ...

The Southern Californian’s youngest child read from the Torah in the Brooklyn study of the late Lubavitcher rebbe. (JTA) — A Southern California father of seven suffering from ALS made the ...

(JTA) — A West Hollywood, California father of seven suffering from ALS made a cross-country trip to be at his son’s bar mitzvah with family and friends in his hometown of Brooklyn. Rabbi Yitzi ...