MINDBIZ
By Esther Mann, LCSW Dear Esther, My daughter Resa was always a sunshine of a girl. Happy-go-lucky, quick to laugh, have fun, and start an adventure. Everyone loved to be around her, and she was the...
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White House: Our ‘Values’ Built Iron Dome
Jen Psaki By Yaakov Levi In response to criticism of the U.S. in an interview program Sunday, the White House on Monday slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying that his criticism of American...
View ArticleThe Physical Faith
By Irwin H. Benjamin Who could have ever foreseen that, way back in the year 1848, a man by the unlikely name of Phineas P. Gage would unwittingly provide proof of an important saying of Chazal? Let me...
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Thanking Our IDF Soldiers A Conversation With David Kramer
By Rochelle Maruch Miller Over just a few short weeks, an inspiring project has spurred thousands of people to help outfit more than 10,000 Israeli soldiers with high-tech T‑shirts emblazoned with the...
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Sukkos Weather
By Larry Gordon What are we going to do? It seems that it is always either too early or too late, too warm or too cold. And despite these conundrums, we continue to search for that perfect season and...
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Sukkos Rulings Of Rav Elyashiv
Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Below we find some rulings from Rav Elyashiv, zt’l, in regard to both the sukkah and the arba’ah minim. Each of the yamim tovim has its own special...
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The Rejection Election
Ari Fleischer By Larry Gordon It seems that voters—Democrats and Republicans alike—have had it with the fashion in which the Obama administration has been conducting itself. According to knowledgeable...
View ArticleNoach: The Survivor
From Where I Stand By Rabbi Yossy Goldman Everybody makes jokes about Noah and his Ark. Bill Cosby has a whole routine on the subject, which I must confess is uncannily faithful to our commentaries’...
View Article5 Towns Dating Forum
Question I am a 29-year-old Sephardic guy. I come from a good family and should have been married years ago. In my tradition, we get married young, and when it does not happen, the community thinks...
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A Trip To The Principal’s Office At The New Shulamith
Shulamith High School for Girls is set to be opening in September 2015, with Rina Zerykier as principal. She recently answered some questions to spread the word about the exciting plans. Q: Who are...
View ArticleJust Thinking
By Hannah Reich Berman What a pity it is that more people do not qualify for work in a think tank. It is my belief that the world might benefit if I were hired to participate in one of those, because I...
View ArticleOlive What He’s Having
By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow During the Second Temple period, Eretz Yisrael suffered from a great famine. The great sage Rebbe Yochanan HaChorani survived by subsisting on dried bread and salt. His student...
View ArticleJust One Shabbos
By Phyllis J. Lubin “What is the next holiday?” Yosef has asked after every yom tov since Rosh Hashanah. Lately, we seem be reviewing the schedule of holidays on a daily basis. This round of holidays...
View ArticleCommerce On The Wild Wild Web
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman There is a law in New York City that all pawnshops have to keep a log of all used items that they have purchased, along with a copy of the identification of the...
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Klinghoffer Lives On
B Y L A R R Y G O R D O N He was a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair who wanted to go on enjoying life. But tragedy and fate ran interference. Leon Klinghoffer was a Jewish New Yorker on a...
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Safety Of A Sacred Space
Lisa Septimus By Rebbetzin Lisa Septimus My e‑mail, Facebook, and Jewish media resources are inundated by the many articles and posts circulating about the recently alleged abuses by a prominent...
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Taking America Back
By Larry Gordon Sometimes the smallest, most innocuous gesture has the ability to move worlds and have an impact on millions. And that is precisely the story as we approach Election Day nationwide on...
View ArticleLech Lecha: Airport Story From Where I Stand
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman Every rabbi has an airport story. Some rabbis tell so many incredible stories of providential encounters on airplanes and in airports that I sometimes wonder if it is physically...
View ArticleNutritional Medicine
By Shirley Bar Chlorophyll-Up! Chlorophyll is magic sunshine that heals our body from within. It’s a magic weight-loss pill, health-gain pill, energy pill, beautifying pill, and, simply put, the #1...
View ArticleHow To Choose A Home Health Aide
By 5TJT STAFF After a fall, illness, procedure, surgery, or with advanced age, you might very well need someone to help care for you in your home. “Caring for a loved one at home can be an overwhelming...
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