5 Towns Dating Forum
Question I’ve been dating my boyfriend since the senior year of high school. None of my friends’ parents allowed them to date then, but I met this guy at my uncle’s house and we liked each other right...
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With The Skverer Rebbe In Pressburg
Machberes: Inside The Chassidish And Yeshivish World By Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum Rabbi Dovid Twersky, revered Skverer Rebbe, leads the chassidish community established by his sage father, Rabbi Yaakov...
View ArticleIs It War Season?
Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz For some reason, it seems that the summer months bring out the terror. Some of it has to be the coming of Ramadan. Ramadan, with its month of fasting, is apparently...
View ArticleThe Second Wedding
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The Marriage Foundation has studied the issue extensively and has determined that 30% of second marriages fail. That is not the shocking part, however: it’s that...
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Catching Up With Harry
By Larry Gordon Harry Rozenberg He is one of the most fascinating young men I have come across in a while. So when I saw Harry Rozenberg in shul the other day, I asked him to come up to the 5TJT office...
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School-Board Tussle
East Ramapo Takeover ‘Undermines Democracy’ By Sandy Eller A local assemblyman has suddenly found himself in the spotlight after an exchange on the New York State Assembly floor regarding the possible...
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Supreme Disappointment
By Larry Gordon Part of our mission here is to ask ourselves about world events—what does all this have to do with Jews and the Jewish community? This time around, the specific focus is threefold: the...
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Ben-Gurion Told Leading Rabbis: I Wish I’d Studied More Torah
By Hillel Fendel The Jerusalem-based Kedem Auction House has put up for sale an original typed protocol of two meetings between the Council of Torah Sages and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and...
View ArticleFBI Chief: Radicalization Of Americans Is Top Concern
More than 200 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic militants, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James Comey said on Wednesday. “We continue to identify...
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Torah & Tefillah In Woodbourne
This summer, the Woodbourne Shul, under the guidance of Rav Mordechai Jungreis, Nikolsburger Rebbe, once again welcomes residents and visitors from all Jewish communities to come to the refurbished...
View ArticleLoving The Land
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. I was going to take the week off from writing, but then I ran into a friend this morning at the coffee shop. “Hey, I see you stopped writing...
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Queens Hatzolah Premier Event
Queens Hatzolah held a community barbecue for men at the NY Hall of Science on July 1.
View ArticleRCA Reviews Conversion Process
The committee charged with reviewing the conversion processes of the Rabbinical Council of America for the purpose of better serving conversion candidates has completed its task and submitted a...
View ArticleCharity Begins In School
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It is a question that is on the minds of many people: Can the money that we pay for tuition be considered ma’aser, the practice of giving one tenth of one’s...
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Fighting Back
By Larry Gordon It’s been almost three years since Superstorm Sandy struck our area, devastating many homes along the South Shore of Long Island and beyond. Homes were flooded and badly damaged, cars...
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Keep The Pressure On Iran
By Reps. Kathleen Rice & John Katko As American and Iranian negotiators work to finalize an agreement seeking to restrict Iran’s nuclear capabilities, many questions remain unanswered. We don’t...
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OTB
By Larry Gordon OTB—that’s Oren, Trump, and Bibi. These folks apparently know how to make news. They seem to have figured out exactly how to manipulate the American and indeed the world media to their...
View ArticleChanukah In July
By Hannah Reich Berman For years I was a slave to the ridiculous practice of sending packages up to camp for my grandchildren. So many times I stood in a store, looked around, and realized that I had...
View ArticleSummer Fun
By Phyllis J. Lubin “Did you see me swim? Aren’t I ready for the blue test?” “A little more work and you will be extra-ready!” I’m back at the waterfront at Avnet Country Day. Every day, I have the...
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Kaminsky Kudos At Kiwanis
Assemblyman Kaminsky honoring Bernie Schwartz at this year’s Five Towns Kiwanis Club golf outing.
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