Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
April 30, 2026, 9:58 am
The power of silence
Suicides, grief, and unspeakable support
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi Lenny Mandel demonstrates how to bow while davening.
February 26, 2026, 9:53 am
‘That’s our minhag’
An investigation of shul choreography
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Welcome to Cartagena! (All photos courtesy Lenny Mandel)
December 18, 2025, 9:55 am
A wedding in Cartagena
Bienaventurados los que vienen en nombre de Dios. No matter the language, welcome and feel the love
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel dresses for the season.
December 4, 2025, 9:53 am
Let it snow — on Shabbat?
How Christmas melodies and Jewish words fit together perfectly
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Lenny Mandel as Pseudolus in “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”
August 7, 2025, 9:56 am
You can’t make this stuff up
From Tevye to Thakur to near misadventures at Newark airport
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel models one of his chaplain shirts.
July 10, 2025, 9:57 am
Healing sickness, one laugh at a time
Our correspondent writes about what it’s like to be a chaplain
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
May 22, 2025, 9:54 am
With a woof woof here
Wherein our correspondent makes the case for a bark mitzvah
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
From top left: Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel, Esra Tozan of Peace Islands Institute, Pastor Mark Suriano of 1st Congregational United Church of Christ, Fatih Silverhill and Hakan Yesilova of Peace Islands Institute. From bottom left, Angela Young of the Unitarian Society, Pastor Marc Stutzel of Christ Lutheran Church, and Ellen Michelson of B’nai Israel. (Naomi Weinberg)
May 8, 2025, 9:57 am
Giving thanks and breaking bread together
Sharing Iftar, a meal for peace, with the Peace Islands Institute
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
February 27, 2025, 9:55 am
The 1,500-pound gorilla in the room
A hospital chaplain confronts mortality and family choices
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Rabbi Mandel’s mother, Lotte Mandel, and his son, Wayne Mandel, stand over the turkey they cooked together.
November 27, 2024, 9:55 am
Teaching your children
Remembering a Thanksgiving dinner
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
This is Lenny Mandel’s photo in his Stuyvesant yearbook.
July 11, 2024, 9:57 am
‘Sounds like some story’
Wherein our correspondent is very glad that he kept his yearbook
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
Peter Yarrow with his ever-present guitar.
November 22, 2016, 5:04 pm
Oh, what a night!
Erev Shabbat with Peter Yarrow
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
April 9, 2015, 4:00 am
Reminiscing about Pesachs past
By Rabbi/Cantor Lenny Mandel
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