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HASC’s Post-Chanukah Party
By Dr. Chaim Wakslak On Wednesday evening, December 11, a large gathering of mothers and grandmothers from Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush, from every walk of life—Sephardic,...
View Article‘N’ Is For ‘New’
The Avenue N Jewish Center is pleased to announce the installation of Rabbi Doniel Eisenbach on Shabbat Parashat Va’eira, December 28. The center’s beloved mara d’asra, Rabbi Dr. Max Schreier, has led...
View ArticleFrom Darkness To Light: Historic Chanukah Ceremony At Ancient Prison Site
By Rochelle Maruch Miller On the last night of Chanukah, Shavei Israel organized a historic candle-lighting ceremony in the infamous Steri Palace Prison in Palermo, Sicily, which served as the...
View ArticleConference To Mark 100 Years Of Tekhelet Research
Ptil Tekhelet will host “100 Years to Tekhelet Research,” a one-day international academic conference marking the centennial of the late Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog’s groundbreaking doctoral...
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Israel News Briefs
Israeli police and rescue personnel at the scene of an explosion on a Bat Yam passenger bus on Sunday, December 22. From JNS.org PA Honors Released Terrorist Prisoners The Palestinian Authority held an...
View ArticleThe Import–Export Business
By Shmuel Katz Our printer died today. It lasted for seven and a half years and was brought over on our original aliyah lift. We needed a replacement and I went online and found a new one at a local...
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Popping The Cork On 2014!
By Debbie Sion and Anna Harwood In recent years, global consumption of sparkling wine has risen dramatically, perhaps due to the increased accessibility of such wines and also the acknowledgment that...
View ArticleModern-Day Addictions
By Doni Joszef The year is 1885. A Viennese neurologist by the name of Sigmund Freud just published his first medical book, Uber Coca, an emphatic praise of a seemingly magical substance: cocaine....
View ArticleSpeaking Softly
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. If you happened to have been at the Minnesota State Fair on September 2, 1901, you would be at least 112 years old now. But you also might...
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A Melodious Night For CAHAL
Avrohom Fried, Shloime Dachs, and the Zemiros Choir CAHAL, the community-wide special-education program, held its fifth annual fundraising concert on Motzaei Shabbos, December 21 at Lawrence High...
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HALB Kickoff Breakfast
Freda and Scott Englander The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach—including the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls and the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys—recently hosted its 59th Annual...
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BabkaBoy Bakes Charity Into Every Bite
Pinny Kwestel is an eleventh-grade DRS High School student from Lawrence. When he was in seventh grade, his aunt showed him a recipe for babkas. After Pinny tweaked it to his liking, his secret babka...
View ArticleAchiezer & Aaron’s Way Dig In With Snow-Removal Initiative
This year’s snow-removal program is being done in partnership with the newly formed “Aaron’s Way” organization. Aaron’s Way is a new community initiative that promotes and highlights unique chesed...
View ArticleOn Becoming A Chayal From Cedarhurst
By Gavi Nelson So here I am at 3:52 a.m., going through my Facebook news feed and looking at posts from September, when I took the jump and made aliyah, after spending a year in Yeshivat Hakotel and a...
View ArticleMen In Back
About 20 years ago, there was a shul outside of the New York Metropolitan area that was looking for a rabbi. There were many candidates for the one position. According to a source, the eventual winner...
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Community News From Around The World
Cuppa J’s New Dairy-Free Hot Cocoa Mix: Redefining Exotic Chocolate Hot chocolate has always seemed to fall into the category of “if it’s not dairy, it’s not worth it.” Changing that notion is Cuppa J,...
View ArticleA Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Religious Freedom
By Sam Sokol What I am about to write is harsh and may strike some as intensely disagreeable; however, I believe that it can and must be honestly stated: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, uneducated in...
View ArticleShocking Hypocrisy Of Obama Admin. — Urges Israel To Release Palestinian...
NEW YORK, January 2 –The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the glaring hypocrisy and inconsistency of the Obama Administration for urging Israel to free Palestinian Arab terrorists...
View ArticleHeard In The Bagel Store: Snow Day Reflections
By Larry Gordon - Did I ever mention that I detest the snow and what it does to inconvenience us and change so much of our lives? At the same time I just have to also say that there is a special place...
View ArticleStanding My Ground
Rina Haller - For each inch gained, it feels as if a centimeter is lost. As I store away seforim from a year and a half of learning in Yerushalayim, I am preparing myself to leave. Seeing friends drive...
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