Carpool Craziness
By Mordechai Schmutter Sometimes I miss the school bus. OK, I just reread that sentence. I meant that I yearn for the school bus. Not that I chase it with my coat on one arm and my knapsack half open,...
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News From The Hills
At the Kamp Keshet open house By Chanita Teitz In all of this snow, ice, and frigid weather, we have been going to one simcha after another: vorts, weddings, and a bar mitzvah all in the past week. We...
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A Tree Grows In Long Beach Dear Editor, Sixty years ago, a tree was planted by Rabbi Dr. Armin H. Friedman, founder and menahel of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach-Yeshivat Lev. The seeds were...
View ArticleOhel’s Support Groups Inform, Stimulate, And Empower
In today’s stressful world, there are many challenges, pressures, and anxieties that everyday people feel in everyday situations. It may be a mother trying to take care of an aging parent, a divorced...
View ArticleDestination Florida With ESF Trucking Passover
By Rochelle Maruch Miller Delivering Your Luggage In Style. There’s an exciting new specialty service for Florida-bound guests that will surely enhance their Passover travel experience. ESF Trucking is...
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Summer Fun With CDG
Camp Dora Golding, the all-boys summer camp in the Poconos, is gearing up for another fantastic summer. For 89 years, Camp Dora Golding has been the leading camp with a strong Torah environment and...
View Article‘Yizkereim’ Shul Program For Taanis Esther
This year we have the unique confluence of Taanis Esther occurring before Parashas Zachor. Grasping the symbolism of this year’s calendar—where we recite Avinu Malkeinu at Minchah only a day before we...
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Legal Battle Over Perth Amboy Shul
The original Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh was built in 1903, but was destroyed in a 1975 fire. By Debra Rubin Perth Amboy, once home to one of the largest and oldest Jewish communities in New Jersey,...
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A Five Towns Simcha
Photo by Stephanie Jeret Mazal tov to Allysa Jeret of Lawrence and Josh Weinberg of Woodmere on their recent engagement. Mazal tov to their parents, Renee and Yossie Jeret and Susan and Rob Weinberg,...
View ArticleThe Devil’s In The Daydreams
By Rabbi Avi Shafran One would be forgiven, especially were one an optimist, for imagining that recent reports of the government of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s donation of $400,000 to a Teheran...
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News From The Hills
The Krula Rebbe making Havdallah in Kew Gardens Hillsas Yehuda Sokol holds the candle. By Chanita Teitz I was going to write something else this week but just now, as I’m writing, I heard that there...
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Visiting Day At DRS
Last Wednesday, DRS High School hosted over 130 prospective eighth-grade applicants from several elementary schools for a chance to experience what it’s like to be a DRS student for a day. This year,...
View ArticleSKA Girls Learn Life Lessons With Mrs. Hirsch
The students in Mrs. Reva Hirsch’s Freshman English class at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had triple opportunities this month to have fun and to expand their educational horizons. On...
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Lev Leytzan Launches ‘Clowns On Rounds’
After more than 10 years of working primarily in medical facilities, Lev Leytzan: The Heart of Therapeutic Clowning, Inc. is expanding its boundaries by bringing therapeutic medical clowning into the...
View ArticleRambam Choir Sings With Kulanu
This past Motzaei Shabbos, Rambam Mesivta’s choir, “The Harmonidies” visited their friends at Kulanu to perform in a concert along with headliner Oneg Shemesh. It was a night of singing, dancing, and a...
View ArticleRambam Wins College Bowl Tournament
Over 100 students from schools all over Long Island were anxiously awaiting the results of three fast-paced rounds of trivia, teamwork, and knowledge that would declare the champions of the 4th Annual...
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Five Towns RIETS Shabbaton This Week
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the Yeshiva University community will celebrate the ordination of its largest class of musmachim (ordained rabbis) at their Chag HaSemikhah...
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Trailblazing Conferences: Torah And Taharah
On a recent whirlwind tour to the United States, wrapping up the weeks of Shovavim, Rav Yitzchak Melber, founding director of Toras HaMishpacha, was fueled by a holy mission. A marathon of ten...
View ArticleHarmony Wows Audiences
For the past 22 years, Kol Rayus Productions has produced Harmony concerts that have enabled talented women and girls from across our community to express their artistic abilities. This year’s...
View ArticleYLX Premieres In 5T
YLX: The Yid Learning Experience is an exciting new program in the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community. Every Thursday night, a number of local yeshiva students converge in the basement at Bais Medrash...
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