Colel Chabad Chanukah Retreat
In April of 2004, Ruth Zagha was just seven years old, the fourth of six children, when a terrorist attacked her home in the Shomron town of Avnei Chefetz on a Friday night shortly after the family had...
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Trump Commutes Sentence Of Agriprocessors’ Sholom Rubashkin, Cites Bipartisan...
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the chief executive of what was then the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the country, who was convicted of...
View ArticleWho Knows Nine?
By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Ancient Greek culture was focused on the human body. Someone remarked that on Chanukah we eat latkes and doughnuts fried in oil to ensure that our bodies do not become...
View ArticleSlap In The Face For World Jewry
By Ari Fuld I contemplated long and hard before posting the video of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, 16, slapping two IDF soldiers near her home [Video posted on Ari Fuld’s Israel Defense Page]. I...
View ArticleOpen Letter From Gavriel Sassoon To Yosi Azan
Gavriel Sassoon, who suffered the loss of seven children after a fire burned down his family’s Brooklyn home on Friday night just two and a half years ago, wrote an open letter to the Azan family, who...
View ArticleThousands Attend Funeral For Victims Of Tragic Fire In Brooklyn
Thousands of mourners attended a funeral in Israel for a woman and her three children killed in a house fire in Brooklyn. The funeral was held in Holon near Tel Aviv, where the mother, Aliza Azan, grew...
View ArticleBringing An End To Galus Edom
By Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Over the last number of years, as Klal Yisrael’s calendar page turns to Parshas Vayechi, communities throughout the country dedicate this Shabbos to the topic of kavod...
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The People We Meet
By Larry Gordon Hannah and Berish Fuchs of Lawrence with their granddaughters Ruchy Freund,Miri Edelstein, Goldie Fuchs, and Yocheved Ostreicher It was an impressive SUV. White, immaculately clean,...
View ArticleAir Supply
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman An exclusive airport lounge is an area similar to first class—but in the airport itself, not on the airplane. The cost is some $450 per year or so, which is...
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News From The Hills
By Chanita Teitz Chazaq boys’ teens division (Jwave) celebrates Chanukah with a special meal alongwith music and dancing in Forest Hills, Queens. On Monday, Akiva and I went to our office as usual. I...
View ArticleSen. Kaminsky Urges LIRR To Honor Disabled-Commuter Tickets
On December 14, 2017, State Senator Todd Kaminsky wrote a letter to LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski calling on the agency to honor reduced-fare tickets for the legally disabled at all times after the...
View ArticleLegislature Unanimously Approves “Good Government” Reforms
The Nassau County Legislature unanimously voted to establish an office of Inspector General, ensuring governmental transparency to Nassau County residents. The Inspector General will have the authority...
View ArticleMisunderstanding Senator Schumer
By Ezra Friedlander In the aftermath of the release of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, we’ve seen much jubilation. But that was followed quickly by speculation from members of our community regarding the...
View ArticleOhel Trauma On Call Post Brooklyn Fire
A tragedy took place on the morning of December 18 in Brooklyn where four members of a family died in a fire and three survivors are in critical condition. Ohel is providing the information below for...
View ArticleMastering The Game
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. The Palestinian Arabs and their leader are upset with the president of the United States. They have a right to be, but their anger is...
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Mission To Preserve Har HaZeitim
By Charles Miller Har HaZeitim view of Old City The Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem, Har HaZeitim, is the national cemetery of the Jewish people. As the final resting place for an estimated...
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Say It Ain’t So, Sal
By Larry Gordon Sal Brancaccio and Mel Laragina After 47 years of cutting hair on Central Avenue in Lawrence, Sal Brancaccio is giving it up, retiring, moving to Florida. No, the shop is not closing...
View ArticleJust Hold On
By Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg The incomprehensible series of events of the last few days has caused me to reflect on something very unsettling that I heard from a prominent Chassidic speaker many years...
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Analyzing Rubashkin
By Larry Gordon Our last-minute headline in the past week’s issue used the word “euphoria” to describe the emotion that swept through the Jewish and right-thinking communities as news emerged and was...
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A Colossal Torah Void
The Torah World and Lomdei Dirshu Bemoan the Loss of Maran HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, zt”l By Chaim Gold Introduction The passing of HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, zt”l, has left Klal...
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