Dinner At A Discount
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman There has been a vast proliferation of Jewish organizations, dinners, and dinner honorees of late. This has given birth to a new phenomenon called “dinner honoree...
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Frozen Moments
By Larry Gordon They stand out as brand-new memories, but are also seared into my mind and will likely last forever. These two weeks in Israel included a historic American presidential visit that...
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Home Alone Dear Esther, I am 51 years old and have been an active mother with children at home longer than most. I have five children and there is a huge gap in between the ages of our oldest and our...
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Ateret Cohanim Celebrates The Jewish Spirit
Jack Katz, Duvi Honig, Ambassador John Bolton, Dr. Paul Brody, Lt.-Col. Yoni Chetboun, Yaakov Serle, Pete Hegseth, Dr. Joe Frager, Karen Frager, Odeleya Jacobs, and Esther Honig By Michoel Bretter “We...
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Linking Our Past With Our Future
Photos by JDN Pictures The Modzitz Rebbe recently traveled to Europe on a mission to visit mekomos ha’kedoshim.
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Remembering Rav Yerucham Levovitz, זצ״ל
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Every so often, individuals emerge in Jewish history who, by dint of their personality and intellect, are able to change the topography of Torah life. One such person was Rav...
View ArticleMayor Edelman’s Annual State Of The Village Report
June 1—If much is anticipated from a public servant’s first hundred days in office, how much more should be expected from their first 11 months. In reporting on the current state of the Village of...
View ArticleAn Open Letter From Mayor Edelman
Dear Friend and Resident: As I look back on my first year as mayor, I recognize that the Village of Lawrence’s continuing accomplishments and success are due to the efforts of a devoted and talented...
View ArticleSpying Out The Land, Part 10
Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz Those who are regular readers of this column are probably aware that for years, I have written an annual Top Ten list for the week that we read Parashat Shelach and...
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Hats Off And On
By Larry Gordon It was a random, cursory, unplanned study of haberdashery in Jerusalem. There we were on a warm weekday, strolling up Jaffa Road in the direction of the Machaneh Yehudah market, when it...
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A Big Small-Town Election
Danny Goldstein By Larry Gordon This is the best type of election—one in which all the candidates are running unopposed. To an extent, this is actually the unwritten law in the pristine Village of...
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Collusion And Confusion
Attorney General Jeff Sessions By Larry Gordon Which Democrats will have the courage to separate themselves from the distasteful and distracting fusillade directed at President Trump? It became clearer...
View ArticleWorks Like A Charm
By Hannah Reich Berman Twice a week, four friends and I engage in an evening of game-playing. The game we play, which originated in China and flourished elsewhere in the Orient, is known as mah-jongg....
View ArticleBiale Rebbe Of Bnei Brak Visits Five Towns
Barely a year has passed since the Biale Rebbe’s last visit to the Five Towns—but it seems like so much longer. Since then, dozens of miracle stories resulted from the Rebbe’s blessings last year, and...
View ArticleRav Boruch Ber, Reb Chaim Ozer, And The Rebbe
A Story In Honor Of 3 Tammuz Rabbi Yosef Dov Krupnik has been the kashrut administrator of the Detroit Council of Orthodox Rabbis since 1993. He also served as the spiritual leader of Congregation...
View ArticleA Five Towns Simcha
Mazal tov to the Liker and Malek families on the marriage of Miriam and Benni on Tuesday, June 20. Eitan Katz provided the music at the simcha, which was held at Ateres Mordechai.
View ArticleIn Israel, Kushner Rushes To Visit Malka Family
One of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East advisers, son-in-law Jared Kushner, touched down in Israel on Wednesday morning before paying a visit to the family of the murdered 23-year-old Sergeant...
View ArticleGROUNDLESS FIGHT
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. When one is consumed with jealousy, all rational thinking goes on vacation. The merits of the argument are irrelevant. Meritless arguments...
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Fridays With Family
A view from the author’s table at Gatos in Ashkelon Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz The first few years that we lived here, we got into the habit of going out for Friday-morning brunch with our...
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Reflections On The Rebbe
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, obm By Larry Gordon It was early on in my Kaddish odyssey as we—the four of us—were in Crown Heights looking through things in my mother’s house, the place where we grew up, the...
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