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ISIS-Inspired Rampage In NY
An Uzbek immigrant suspected of killing eight people in Manhattan by crashing a pickup truck through a crowd on the West Side Greenway bike path followed online plans from Islamic State and left a note...
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Election 2017
Anthony Santino By Larry Gordon What a difference a year makes. This year’s elections around Nassau County and the New York area in general make you kind of long for last year’s momentous and historic...
View ArticleCalled Out
By Esther Mann Dear Esther, I believe that my husband is basically a good man. He has always provided well for his family. He is responsible, loyal, someone we can all depend on. The problem is that he...
View ArticleWhat To Do During A Power Failure
By Mordechai Schmutter To be honest, not many people really have a minhag of what to do during a power failure. Seriously, what did your great-grandfather do when his power went out? The first thing to...
View ArticleYou’ve Still Got Mail
By Hannah Reich Berman There are times when I wonder if people are watching me and if they are out to get me. That must be it, because if nobody is watching me, how is it that they know what I like and...
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Hamercaz Queens College: The Center For Jewish Life And Learning
By Rochelle Maruch Miller Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld speaks about the critical need for supportfor Orthodox college students on campus With its remarkable number of 1,000 Orthodox students, Queens College is...
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Madraigos Teaches How To ‘Be The Parent Your Child Craves’
Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein speaksat Madraigos event On October 30, Madraigos, the organization that works tirelessly to meet the needs of the community, presented “Be the Parent Your Child Craves,” an...
View ArticleRevisiting Remarriage
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman “Look, for a regular chassan, I understand. You are helping build up Klal Yisrael. But this guy has kids already. I don’t see any mitzvah in helping him more than...
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Wines To Fall For
Exceptional Autumn Wines From Around The World Gabriel Geller There’s a snap in the air, the fall wines are in, and, according to Gabriel Geller, there’s much to be thankful for in this season’s...
View ArticleThe Kaddish Gang
By Larry Gordon We are one disparate but dynamic group with a common bond. We are five men who lost one of our parents during the last half-year or so, and now at Shacharis every morning we recite...
View ArticleDon’t Humor Holocaust-Deniers
By Ron Jager For the past few days, as a result of Larry David’s monologue on the TV show Saturday Night Live, I have had to reexamine many assumptions concerning what the Holocaust means to liberal...
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Giant Shadows
By Larry Gordon At this time of year, we pause to remember and to observe the yahrzeits of a few people who, in their own sometimes dramatic and sometimes unassuming ways, made vital contributions to...
View ArticleWelcome Home!
After many successful years on Main Street in Flushing, Rafail and Oksana Kats have opened a second location of Royal Home Goods, at 536 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. Their wide selection of Egyptian...
View ArticleFood: Now In More Colors!
By Mordechai Schmutter People sometimes ask me why I write about Kosherfest every year. Kosherfest is a trade show, and, as such, is only open to people in the kosher-food industry. Though I suppose...
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Honoring HaRav Shimon Groner
PHOTOs by IVAN H. NORMAN Celebrating in honor of HaRav Groner A siyum was held in honor of the 12th yahrzeit of HaRav Shimon Groner, zt’l, in Yeshiva Ateres Shimon. Rav Groner was a gentle giant in...
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News From Rambam Mesivta
Commemorating Kristallnacht Through Education And Action Rambam rallies for justice Students reinforced their knowledge of the Shoah with an assembly about Kristallnacht. Principal Rabbi Yotav Eliach...
View ArticleFIDF South Shore Dinner
On November 8, Friends of the IDF of the Greater South Shore held their dinner at the Sephardic Temple in Cedarhurst. Pictured here: IDF Staff Sergeant Sharon Zohar, dinner honorees Rabbi Arnold and...
View ArticleZimbabwe Jews Advised To Stay Indoors
By Tamara Zieve Leaders of Zimbabwe’s Jewish community have instructed members of the tiny community to stay indoors following the military coup there, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. In...
View ArticleThe Rebbe From Lubavitch, Part 9
By R’ Nison Gordon, z’l Translated By P. Samuels Rosh Hashanah 5689 (the end of 1928) was the first Rosh Hashanah that the Rebbe Reb Yosef Yitzchok was out of the boundaries of Russia, which he left...
View ArticleForgetting To Remember
By Larry Gordon The story is told about a Jewish businessman who traveled to Mumbai, India, just two weeks after the terror attack on the Chabad Center that ended the lives of Gavriel and Rivkie...
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