Jews In Prison
Machberes: Inside The Chassidish And Yeshivish World By Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum When the Vilna Gaon, zt’l (1720–1797) was twice incarcerated in connection with the case of an apostate, he was in a...
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Basketball Roundup
By Judah Rhine At the HAFTR vs. North Shore 7th-grade game North Shore Hebrew Academy 6th grade defeats HALB, 37–11. The North Shore team was led by the strong play of Steven Levian and Aaron Hajabia....
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The $100,000 Menorah
By Rochelle Maruch Miller Menorah from 1780 For Jonathan Greenstein, the menorah has significance beyond the ceremonial: it can also be a highly valued collectible. As founder of the J Greenstein...
View ArticleWhen Jihad Johnny Comes Marching Home
By Ron Jager Islamic terrorist organizations received an unanticipated victory after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Within a short period thereafter, the Russian army unilaterally withdrew from...
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High Tech At HAFTR
By Larry Gordon A HAFTR student School principals and administrators are dealing with an interesting challenge out there today, which is how to use the advances in modern technology to aid the learning...
View ArticleSky-High Prices And Halachah
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Oil change: $60. Corned beef: $38.95/lb. Low-end snow shovel: $38. Desitin: $28.95. Tropicana orange juice: $5.95 for a 59-oz. container. Potato salad: $13.95/lb....
View ArticleCuba And Israel
By Larry Gordon Prior to the midterm elections, we spent an inordinate amount of time focusing on the disappointing nature of the Obama presidency. Now that they are over with and the Republican Party...
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Awkward Meals
What you’ll see inside Pitch Black By Mordechai Schmutter If you’ve ever considered opening your own business, you’ve probably thought about restaurants. People love restaurants. You get to sit there...
View ArticleLet’s Make A Deal
By Five Towns Marriage Initiative Yaakov makes Yosef promise him in ParashasVayechi that Yaakov will be buried in Me’aras Hamachpeilah, which was bought from Efron. When the sale was made, the language...
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Ossie’s Toy Fund: The Chanukah Miracles Continue
Robbie Schonfeld with a young patient For over a decade, Robbie and Judy Schonfeld have been dedicating their hearts, souls, and fundraising efforts to bring the greatest joy, happiness, and hope to...
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Seventh-Grade Update
By Judah Rhine In a rematch of the opening game of the seventh-grade basketball season, Flatbush squared off against HAFTR, this time on HAFTR’s home court. The last time these two teams met, HAFTR...
View ArticleThe Ethical Will Of Rav Yehudah HaChassid
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman “You’re doing construction? Don’t close off that window!” “Don’t you dare go out with her! She has the same name as your mother!” “If you left and forgot...
View ArticlePlaying Favorites From The Other Side Of The Bench
By David J. Seidemann, Esq. Tomorrow is one of my favorite days and one of my daughter’s least favorite days. I will be speaking at Shulamith, the elementary school that my eighth-grader attends, a...
View ArticleCan Zionism Exist Outside Israel?
By Rabbi Shaul Feldman As a full-time Bnei Akiva employee, I spend much of my time jetting back and forth between Israel and the United States. On every trip, I encounter interesting and passionate...
View ArticleJFK–Jerusalem Diary
By Larry Gordon It was a long-anticipated day filled with expectations, enthusiasm, shock, and sadness. That’s the unusual and very special thing about Israel. It’s always exciting and challenging, but...
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Tropicana Orange Juice: An Update
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Five weeks ago, we published an article regarding scale bugs found in Tropicana orange juice, one of the leading brands in the United States (“What’s Bugging...
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Benghazi To Brooklyn
By Larry Gordon Valerie Jarrett Mayor de Blasio’s emotional response to the wanton, execution-style murder of two police officers in Brooklyn last week seems, in retrospect, to be something other than...
View ArticleZOA Files Complaint To Disqualify Misnamed ‘HaTikvah’ Slate
The Zionist Organization of America is running a stellar slate of Jewish activists in the upcoming World Zionist Congress election. Candidates on the ZOA slate include the Five Towns’ Ann Schockett and...
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Top NYPD Commanders Brief Agudath Israel Leaders
In light of recent events in New York City, Paris, and around the world, several of the highest-ranking NYPD chiefs delivered a security briefing Tuesday night to the administration and national board...
View ArticleToday Paris, Tomorrow The World
Extreme Political Correctness Is Lethal By Assemblyman Dov Hikind Despite the obvious nature of last week’s terror attacks in Paris, it took quite some time before the media even felt comfortable...
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