letters to THE EDITOR
The Truth Hurts Dear Editor, Thank you for printing the letter written by Rabbi Frankel in last week’s issue. I read and reread it and found it to be intellectually honest and thought-provoking. I...
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A Five Towns Simcha
Photo by Ivan H Norman The Hiller family held a joyous four-generation reunion in Far Rockaway. Yisroel Dov Hiller, a Warsaw Ghetto survivor and father of Rabbi Shmuel Hiller and Rabbi Moshe Hiller, is...
View ArticleChanukah In Israel
The Year In Israel By Max Fruchter Chanukah, as I’m sure will come as no surprise, is a major holiday celebration in Israel. One could see it coming weeks before its time thanks to the innumerable...
View ArticleU.S. Official Doesn’t Know If Abbas Made Assurances In Arabic
By Toby Klein Greenwald David Makovsky, on leave from the Washington Institute, was named to the State Department’s Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiating team last month. Makovsky will be a senior...
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Israeli Wine Reaches Vietnam
Members of the Israeli and Vietnamese delegations at a party celebrating the signing of the agricultural cooperation agreement By Anna Harwood The Golan Heights Winery, which produces, markets, and...
View ArticleTouro Professor Honored By ZOA
The Zionist Organization of America honored Professor Anne Bayefsky, the director of the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, with the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism...
View ArticleReuth To Celebrate 75 Years Of Excellence And Caring
Reuth (www.reuth.org), Israel’s leading elder care, rehabilitation, and social welfare organization, will mark its 75th anniversary with a gala celebration at the New York Palace in Manhattan on...
View ArticleWIZO Launches Florida’s First Kosher Food & Wine Festival, December 18
Hundreds of food and wine connoisseurs from throughout the country will converge at Miami’s Kosher Food and Wine Experience December 18 to sample hundreds of kosher wines and exquisite gourmet foods...
View ArticleAleh To Honor Irma Cardozo At 2014 Gala
The distinguished Aleh Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award is to be presented to Mrs. Irma Miriam Lopes Cardozo (née Fernandes Robles). The upcoming gala will be held on Wednesday, May 21, at the...
View ArticleSt. John’s Episcopal Hospital Residency In Podiatry Receives Advanced...
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s residency program in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery recently received an advanced certification in reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery from the Council on...
View ArticleShalhevet Celebrates Chanukah
Chanukah at Midreshet Shalhevet this year was quite the festival! After a rejuvenating long weekend break, the girls at Shalhevet returned to school and celebrated Chanukah with an extraordinary...
View ArticleChabad Of The Five Towns Annual Dinner, December 15
By Rabbi Zalman Wolowik When children with special needs are educated with love and concern, who benefits? When people can turn to friends for help in times of physical or emotional distress, who...
View ArticleBig Names Come Out In Support Of ZOA
Over 900 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s 115th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 24 at the New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Former Republican...
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YDT 41st Anniversary Dinner, December 29
Yeshiva Darchei Torah takes pride in announcing the honorees for its 41st Anniversary Dinner, to be held on Sunday evening, December 29, at the yeshiva’s campus. Mr. and Mrs. Menachem Marx: Guests of...
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The People You Meet
David Gross with his daughter Rebecca, from Woodmere By Larry Gordon The streets and the stores are overcrowded. It’s something you think you might only see somewhere in India or some African country....
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News From The Hills
By Chanita Teitz I had a “feel good” moment last week that really made my day when I realized that I managed to take care of my grandchildren, three kids under the age of 5, from Motzaei Shabbos...
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Ohel’s Foster Care Chanukah Party
On the eighth night of Chanukah, Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services hosted their annual Chanukah party for foster families. This event is much anticipated every year by the foster children and...
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Send-Off Breakfast For NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly
State Senator Felder, Councilman-elect Deutsch, and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly pose with the silver mezuzah case and plaque presented to Kelly. Close to 200 people, including prominent community...
View ArticleRav Chaim’s Teshuvos: Sephardic Custom Of Lighting In Shul
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Last week, Mr. Larry Gordon had the honor of meeting with Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, and presented a few halachic questions to the revered rav. The following question was posed...
View ArticleHeard In The Bagel Store – Shopping In Israel
By Larry Gordon - When it finally became a little cool and rainy at night in Israel—this is before last week’s snowstorm—the choices were either stay at home or go out to join the maddening crowds at...
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