Editor's column

Editor's column

Farewell to the year 2020, an eye-opener

The year 2020 has come to an end, a year that has had an extremely great number of bad and even horrible names attached to it, a year that many curse (and rightfully so), and the end of which the entire worl...

by Dr.Zoya Maksumova
January 7, 2021

Waiting for the Hanukkah Miracle

Dear friends, do you believe in the miracle of Hanukkah? Not just because in those early days a tiny portion of oil burned for eight days, but in a broader sense of what might be a miracle? After all, each o...

by Dr.Zoya Maksumova
December 4, 2020

"Tradition, tradition, tradition"

"Tradition, tradition, tradition" - these are the words Tevye, the milkman, sings in the play "Fiddler on the Roof" by Sholom Aleichem, urging his children and his people to preserve the national traditions,...

by Dr.Zoya Maksumova
November 8, 2020

The value of a husband is his wife

Even though many people like Facebook, I am not a fan of this social media platform. It is very time consuming and the scrolling is never ending. Нow that I am semi-retired, I am still always short of time. ...

by Dr.Zoya Maksumova
June 5, 2019

The Invisible Burqa

Everyone of us who has come to the United States has repeatedly heard the three principles that are so important in our immigrant lives: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Thank G-d, the ...

by Dr.Zoya Maksumova
October 10, 2009