Sh’or Yoshuv: Infusing Souls With An Inspired Judaism
By Leah Goldman With over 250 students, 70 kollel members, and 250 chavrusa partners, the hallways, batei midrash, and classrooms pulsate with activity. Students from across the spectrum of Jewish life...
View ArticlePonevez: The Yeshiva With A True Yiddishe Heart
This Sunday, November 24, the annual dinner for the Ponevez Yeshiva in Bnei Brak will be celebrating seven decades of chesed and Torah. The famed Ponevezer Rov, Rav Shlomo Yosef Kahaneman, zt’l, was...
View ArticlePesach Danube Riverboat Cruise For 2014
Imagine cruising along the scenic Danube River, through historic Vienna, Budapest, and Bratislava, on the elegant Amadeus Rhapsody Riverboat. But unlike other travel adventures, this exclusive cruise...
View ArticleRCCS: Fighting Cancer Together, Winning Together
By Daniel Perez It’s a deadly disease, impacting men and women from infancy to old age and everywhere in between. It’s a condition so dreaded that some dare not utter its name, instead referring to it...
View ArticleStamp The Concert Date, Stampede The Judaica Stores
By Chaya Sara Schlussel So, what’s been happening on the Jewish music scene lately? Reports indicate that some people are feeling a bit down and depressed and in need of a lift. Maybe it’s the imminent...
View ArticleMKs Unite, Call On U.S. To Release Pollard
By Gil Ronen Twenty-eight years have passed since U.S. intelligence officer Jonathan Pollard was arrested by FBI agents outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on suspicion that he had spied for...
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The Chesed Factor: Junee’s Mix Of Trendy Fashion & Acts Of Compassion
Team Yachad has joined with Team Junee By Rochelle Maruch Miller Mention June Abiksos’s name and you are sure to elicit unabashed praise. The personable proprietor of the popular Junee stores in the...
View ArticleAgudah Convention Tackles Contemporary Issues
By Boruch Shubert The 91st annual convention of Agudath Israel of America in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, was a smashing success, partially because of the fascinating Thursday night and Motzaei Shabbos...
View Articleletters to THE EDITOR
It’s Not The Men Dear Editor, I just read Rabbi Yair Hoffman’s article in the Five Towns Jewish Times regarding pants, leggings, and gym clothing (“The Gym and the Carpool,” November 8), and I have to...
View ArticleOhr HaLimud Announces 2013–2014 Workshop Series
The Professional Development Academy, a division of Ohr HaLimud—The Multi-Sensory Learning Center, believes in looking at the whole child in order to improve learning and teaching. The professional...
View ArticleTouro Appoints Distinguished Professor Of Economics And Business
Michael Szenberg, Ph.D., has been appointed as a distinguished professor of economics and business at Touro College. A renowned economist who has authored numerous scholarly volumes, Dr. Szenberg will...
View ArticleOhel Addresses Challenging Behavior
Why do some children and teens “lose it” over seemingly insignificant issues? What do you do when everyday activities turn into power struggles that no one wins? How can we turn challenging discipline...
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Spend Pesach With Vim’s
Are you looking for a totally new luxury Passover hotel experience only three hours from New York City? Mendy Vim’s Holidays has a new location this year, the Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown, NY. The...
View ArticleEnjoy An EnLITEned Chanukah
By Michele Justic “What am I getting for Chanukah?” Instead of the tune of Maoz Tzur, for many families this question has been hanging in the air for a few weeks. Parents would love to teach a...
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Har Torah Bar And Bat Mitzvah Workshops
On two recent Motzaei Shabbatot, the sixth-grade girls and seventh-grade boys at Yeshiva Har Torah celebrated their respective bar/bat mitzvah workshops and melaveh malkah. Organized and planned by...
View Articleletters to THE EDITOR
Tzniyus Is A Matter Of Halachah Dear Editor, First, I would like to commend Rabbi Hoffman for his sensitive handling of a growing concern in our community the other week in his article titled “The Gym...
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A Five Towns Simcha
Photo by Naomi Cohen Photography Shuie Klein, son of Penina and David Klein, celebrated his bar mitzvah during Parashas Chayei Sarah. Shuie is a student at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. Mazal tov!
View ArticleMixing Work And Pleasure
By Anna Harwood As a new immigrant to Israel, one often diverges from the cleverly laid-out career path one planned upon graduation from college. Learning Hebrew is often the first reality check,...
View ArticleCounting The Days
By Rina Haller A milestone is upon us. In the grand book of American post-high-school students in seminaries and yeshivas, Chanukah is it. Regardless of where they buy their sufganyiot, somehow the...
View ArticleA Second Look At Rabbi Wolmark
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Divorce wars can be very bitter battles. Unfortunately, divorces between observant Jews are often no exception. Indeed, often they can even be more difficult than their secular...
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