Bulk Savings
By Mordechai Schmutter Costco is awesome. My wife sent me to Costco today because we were low on tuna. Now we’re high on tuna. I also came home with eight items she didn’t ask for. But no one buys just...
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After 30 Years, Parole For Pollard
By Gil Hoffman Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison after serving 30 years of a life sentence on November 20, the U.S. Parole Commission announced Tuesday. The commission relayed...
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Rebbetzin Rishel Kotler, ע״ה
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman K’lal Yisrael has lost the presence of an extraordinary neshamah—Rebbetzin Rishel Kotler. She was best known as the daughter-in-law of Rav Aharon Kotler, zt’l, and mother and...
View ArticleSummer Camp With Guns
By Benyamin Korn Summer camp can mean very different things to different kids. For Jewish children, summer camp means squirt guns and color wars. For Palestinian Arab children, summer camp means...
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School Talk
Superintendent Gary Schall By Larry Gordon We sat around a long, imposing conference table in what used to be the Lawrence School District superintendent’s office. I thought the room looked familiar,...
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Can We Prevent ‘OTD’?
By Rabbi Yitzie Ross After writing this article for a quasi-religious online magazine, I was advised by rabbanim, as well as a few “off the derech” children, that it would be better suited for an...
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King Of Israel
Arieh King Rebbetzin Rishel as a child (at right) First edition of Mishneh L’Melech Reb Elchonon Wasserman, zt’l Rav Shneur Kotler, zt’l, as a young man Rav Aharon Kotler, zt’l Rav Yitzchok Herzog,...
View ArticleAny Banner Will Do
By Hannah Reich Berman Teenagers will march for any cause. Just put up a banner, give them a poster to carry or a placard to walk around with, and they will march. They’ll stand out in the hot summer...
View ArticleBest Of The Week
By Mordechai Schmutter One of the biggest factors that go into writing my humor columns, I’ve noticed, is hashgachah pratis. The fact that something disastrous happens to me just about every week is...
View ArticleIran, The Bomb, And You
By Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman It is a rare moment in time when individuals have the potential to shape history. The recently announced deal with Iran presents us with one such historic opportunity. Those...
View ArticleZOA Praises Meng And Vargas For Opposing Iran Deal
The Zionist Organization of America praises Democratic Congresswoman Grace Meng and Democratic Congressman Juan Vargas for standing up for America, Israel, and our other allies’ security, with...
View ArticlePesach In August
By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Torah permits a person to annul his vows with the assistance of a chacham or beis din. One method of annulling a vow is by finding a “pesach,” literally an opening. The sage...
View ArticleThe Zucchetto vs. The Yarmulke
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman In the Braccio di Carlo Magno Hall of the Vatican, an exhibit on display from now until mid-September is called “A Blessing to One Another: John Paul II and the...
View ArticleThe Making Of A President
By Joseph Frager, MD With 17 declared Republican candidates, it is hard to sort out who has a chance and who does not. It can make one dizzy. There have been a feaw times when a large field of...
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Wall Stories
Eliezer Sirota By Larry Gordon It’s the greatest outdoor shul in the world. For people who have a proclivity for davening outside, there is nothing like it anywhere else. In New York, praying in the...
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Iran Deal Is A Risk I Can’t Support
Kathleen Rice By Rep. Kathleen Rice Three weeks ago, President Obama announced that American and international negotiators had reached a final agreement with Iranian leaders restricting Iran’s nuclear...
View ArticleGood And Bad News
By Larry Gordon It was a hot and sunny few days, like the others during this penetratingly scorching summer in Israel. In the city of Bet El, just outside Jerusalem, bulldozers and riot police did...
View ArticleThree-Month Loan
By Rabbi Meir Orlian Shlomo returned from a summer visit to Eretz Yisrael very excited. “It was fascinating,” he exclaimed to his friend Eli. “Scattered all around the country were fallow fields and...
View ArticleWhat You’re Actually Learning
By Mordechai Schmutter It’s almost time to go back to school, although if you’re a student (especially one of my high-school students), you probably don’t even know why. “What are we even learning...
View Article5 Towns Dating Forum
Question This is going to shock you. I am a 24-year-old guy and I am dating a black girl. Don’t worry, she is Jewish and frum. We met on a kiruv program. She is the most awesome person in the world. My...
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