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Yeshiva League Roundup Derech Hatorah loses to HANC, 73–48. Derech Hatorah could not overcome HANC’s tenacious full-court press and never really got out of the starting gate. Adam Motovich put on a...
View ArticleHomemade Marshmallows
By Elke Probkevitz You might have had your share of powdery, store-bought marshmallows throughout your childhood, but you’ve never really had a marshmallow unless you’ve eaten a homemade marshmallow. A...
View ArticleReflections On Eating
Mental Wellness By Dr. Rachel Lowinger I am amazed by young women these days: they are so beautiful and capable, and opportunities for self-expression and accomplishment are seemingly endless. They...
View ArticleReaching Out, Reaching In
By Larry Gordon For the families, the pain of the loss lingers and may never subside. For those on the outside, it is a matter of one terror-attack victim being supplanted by another. It’s a delicate...
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The JetBlue Fiasco
By Larry Gordon This might be goodbye to JetBlue. We have always found the JetBlue folks courteous and cooperative even though air travel and schlepping through just about any airport is somewhat...
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Torah Or Menorah?
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman To learn, or not to learn—that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind of halachah to light the Chanukah licht at home, thus leaving seder early, or to...
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Israel’s Left
By Larry Gordon Once again, it is election season in Israel. The great hope of the marriage of rightist ideology and centrist pragmatism just didn’t work out. Perhaps that is because the rightists...
View ArticleAdding Excitement To Your Latkes
By Elke Probkevitz When it comes to anything traditional, it really depends on preference. Some of us love to keep the traditions alive exactly as they are. Eating latkes takes us back home to when we...
View ArticleSeasonal Supplies
By Hannah Reich Berman To everything there is a season, and we are now in the season of cold weather, which means possible blizzards followed by icy sidewalks and streets. This is not a favorite time...
View Article5 Towns Dating Forum
By Baila Sebrow Question I have a daughter who is 18 years old. We decided not to send her to seminary because she never had any friends in school, and she was ignored by the other girls. We were...
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News From The Hills
By Chanita Teitz I met with Arieh King, Jerusalem City Council member, chairman of the United Jerusalem Party and the Environmental Protection Committee, and deputy chairman of the Emergency and...
View ArticleChag HaSemichah At Lander Beis Medrash L’Talmud
By Rochelle Maruch Miller Walk into the beis medrash at Lander College for Men Beis Medrash L’Talmud at any time and you can feel the energy—in the room, in the give and take between the students, in...
View ArticleWomen Lighting: Playing With Fire?
By Rebbetzin Lisa Septimus There is a discussion in Masheches Shabbos (21b) about how to kindle the Chanukah lights. The basic requirement of the mitzvah is that each household lights one flame for...
View ArticleThere Is Hope From The Other Side Of The Bench
By David J. Seidemann, Esq. His Hebrew name is Tuvia Chaim ben Esther, and he needs our prayers. His friends, family, and coworkers know him as Allen. I rarely use my articles to promote a particular...
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My Chanukah
By Larry Gordon Rabbi Nison Gordon, z’l It is an ongoing Chanukah dilemma, one that is dealt with annually, not necessarily at this time of year, but rather back in August or September when the summer...
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The Picture Of Perfection
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman “I hope you don’t mind, but the boy’s mother would like to see a picture of your daughter.” “Look, ka’h, my son is a big masmid and he values his time. I know...
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Reagan At 30
Senator Alphonse D’Amato, President Ronald Reagan, and Rabbi Morris Friedmanat Temple Hillel in 1984 By Larry Gordon “America has drifted,” said former Senator Alphonse D’Amato, now 77, the man who...
View ArticleVayigash: No Time To Weep From Where I Stand
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman And he [Yosef] fell on his brother Binyamin’s neck and cried, and Binyamin cried on his neck. —Bereishis 45:14 The wisest of men said there is a time to weep, which implies that...
View ArticleNeed A Boost?
By Mordechai Schmutter Today’s article is about how to boost a car. A lot of people are scared of boosting cars, because boosting cars is a multistep process, and if you don’t do it exactly right, you...
View ArticleFrom The Chassidic Masters: A Yeshiva In Egypt
The Torah tells us that when Yaakov moved his family to Egypt, where the Jewish people were to reside for more than two centuries, “he sent Yehudah ahead . . . to show the way” (Bereishis 46:28). The...
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