Nadler Just Doesn’t Get It
By Chaskel Bennett Congressman Jerry Nadler’s decision to vote to uphold the controversial JCPOA Iran deal has been met by a vociferous response from his constituents. Rarely has a politician’s...
View ArticleTurning The Tide In The Senate
By Jeff Ballabon Can the Democrats in the Senate be “turned” on the Iran Deal? If the establishment “Israel lobby” and Jewish leadership were focused on winning—actually winning instead of...
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Israeli Growers Face Shemittah Downturn
An etrog orchard in central Israel that will be selling its produce in accordancewith halachic provisions By Jeremy Wimpfheimer In advance of the Sukkot holiday, Israeli distributors of the arba’ah...
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Pulling On Our Heartstrings
Yosi Piamenta at GV Studios recording “Yess Legacy,” the Moshe Yess tribute album,with Gershon Veroba, Avraham Rosenblum, and Gal Gershovsky Yosi Piamenta, ל״ז By Michele Justic Whether you called him...
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The Right Esrog
By Larry Gordon Is this the right esrog? Yona Edelkopf He went in search of the right, proper, and most kosher esrog he could find for himself and for his customers. From one perspective, it is a...
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Tefillah In Crisis
By Rav Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center When one or more of our individual or communal obligations as shomreiTorahu’mitzvos are in crisis and in need of chizuk, the last place we would...
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Ben & Jerry & Jerry
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield Congressman Jerrold Nadler By Larry Gordon Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s dissertation on why, after painstaking deliberations, he has decided to vote to allow the Iran...
View ArticleMindBiz
By Esther Mann, LCSW Dear Esther, I have three children: My oldest son and my daughter both live out of town; my youngest son, whom I’ll call Ben, lives in New York. A number of years ago, he fell in...
View ArticleMy Cup Runneth Over
By Five Towns Marriage Initiative In Parashas Ki Savo we are told: “Cursed is the one who does not uphold the words of this Torah.” The Ramban explains that each person has to uphold the Torah in full,...
View ArticlePushing Off Homework
By Mordechai Schmutter People are always asking me the benefits of working at home. Well, that’s not true. No one talks to me, because I work at home. I don’t really interact with the outside world....
View ArticleDollars And Sense
By Hannah Reich Berman Always interested in ways to economize, I snapped to attention when the host of a news program I was watching announced, “Coming up next: an expert who will tell us how to save...
View ArticleOn The A-List: Just Face It
By Rochelle Maruch Miller At Just Face It, her elegantly appointed salon, Tamar Abikzer has created the perfect setting to afford her clients a fabulous beauty experience. In the heart of Woodmere, the...
View ArticleA Decade Of Chesed
Avigdor’s Helping Hand Rebuilds Shattered Lives By Rochelle M Miller We all know of families that have suffered the devastating loss of the primary wage-earning spouse, leaving the surviving spouse and...
View ArticleKerry And White House Ties To Iran
By Joseph Frager, MD The life-threatening deal that Secretary of State John Kerry signed with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Zarif seems to be an all-in-the-family affair. Most do not know that John...
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Party Time
Avi Faivish celebrating with Chaim Zagelbaum Fathers and sons Dov Faivish, Avi Faivish, Chaim Zagelbaum, and YoelZagelbaum. (Not pictured: mothers Tzipi Faivish and Ayala Zagelbaum) Avi Faivish By...
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Don’t Just Stand There
Jimmy Kimmel Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Jimmy Kimmel is a Catholic-born comedian who hosts a late-night comedy show. One of his routines, apparently, features a social experiment entitled...
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Next Stop, Uman
Rebbe Nachman’s gravesite in Uman By Larry Gordon It’s nearly the end of the year 5775, which, amongst other things, means that 5776 is on the way. For Jews around the world, that means looking back...
View ArticleCaps Off To You
By Hannah Reich Berman Lest anyone be concerned about my mentioning the name of a friend in this piece, I hereby declare that I received her permission to do so. The reason that she freely and...
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Rosh Hashanah Refresher Course
By Elke Probkevitz Food is such an integral part of our religion and how we celebrate and commemorate each holiday. On Rosh Hashanah, the symbolism of food helps usher in a sweet and good new year to...
View ArticleDavening For Kavanah
By Mordechai Schmutter It’s Rosh Hashanah, and we have a lot to daven for this year. Me, I’m davening for more kavanah. It seems like a worthwhile investment. I often have problems with kavanah,...
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