Mild Cognitive Impairment And Alzheimer’s Disease
By Anita Kamiel, RN, MPS They are quips we hear often enough—when you forget a name or where you left your keys: “I’m having a senior moment,” or, “My Alzheimer’s is setting in!” As we age, the body...
View Article5 Towns Dating Forum
Question I am in a huge mess right now. This girl and I have been dating for a long time, but taking it slow, because I want to wait till I’m done with dental school. Lately, she has been pushing more...
View ArticleHow To Stay (Happily) Married
By Naomi L Baum My husband and I recently celebrated our fortieth wedding anniversary, and our daughter Shoshi asked me to share the secret to staying married for all those years. Her request gave me...
View Article‘Es Kumtz Mir’
By Rav Aryeh Z Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center There is no other month on the Jewish calendar that grabs our full attention as does the month of Tishrei, filled with the various yamim tovim, or, as...
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Those Were The Days
Rabbi Moshe DovBer Rivkin, a’h By Larry Gordon “Er hut zich azoy ois gevaynt.” It was on Rosh Hashanah, during the reading of the haftarah of the first day of the New Year, and Rav Moshe DovBer Rivkin...
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The Agunah Wars Have Begun
Rabbi Simcha Krauss Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It seems to be developing into the mother of all halachic controversies. It began in 2014, when Rabbi Simcha Krauss admirably launched an...
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Show Me The Money
Rabbi Marc Schneier Gov. Mike Huckabee Rep. Carolyn Maloney By Larry Gordon Over this summer, no fewer than six candidates for the Republican nomination for president of the United States have appeared...
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Happy Days At HAFTR
Students eagerly ran to begin their new school year at HAFTR. The engaging teachers welcomed the children to the colorful and fun facilities to enjoy time with their friends as they learn new things,...
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An Enchanted Evening: Haym Salomon Celebrates New Rehab Center
By Rochelle Maruch Miller It was the perfect culmination of a gorgeous summer: a lavish red-carpet event held at the magnificent new penthouse of the Haym Salomon Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation....
View ArticleFrom The Chassidic Masters: Passive Labor
One of the greatest paradoxes of a life of faith concerns the need to work for a living. If G‑d is the source of all blessings, why toil to earn a livelihood? And if we do work, how can we avoid the...
View ArticlePursue Peace
By Five Towns Marriage Initiative Moshe Rabbeinu went from tent to tent in the encampment of the Jewish nation, speaking words of peace to the families in each tent. The Kli Yakar explains that because...
View ArticleSoaring To The Heavens, Yom-Kippur Style
By Sandy Eller Eve of 11 Tishrei 5774—Today I was an angel. Not for the whole day, maybe not even for an entire hour, but there were moments today when I managed to somehow rise to a level that I...
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Jerusalem Resident Killed In Rock Attack On Rosh Hashanah
By Jonathan Benedek Alexander Levlovitz, the Israeli who was killed in a rock attack on his car on Rosh Hashanah, was buried on Wednesday, September 16. Hundreds, including his shocked family members,...
View ArticleTefillah And Kehillah Are Inseparable
The following address was delivered on Shabbos in a local shul by one of its members who is in need of a yeshuah. May it serve to inspire many and may all the good that it accomplishes be a z’chus for...
View ArticlePiece For Peace: Limiting The Stress Of Divorce
By Esther Schonfeld and Rachel Marks “Imagine all the people living life in peace.”—John Lennon There is an old joke that we often tell that makes light of an attorney’s propensity to argue. When a...
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The Agunah Wars: An Analysis
Rabbi Asher Lopatin Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Last week, the Five Towns Jewish Times ran an article about the unfortunate dilemma of agunos. A number of points were made in the article....
View ArticleVictorious Defeat
By Larry Gordon We all pushed hard in our own ways for the P5+1 deal with Iran to go down to defeat. It doesn’t appear that those efforts were successful, as the presidential executive order has not...
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A Five Towns Simcha
Photo by Azamra DJ Mazal tov to Dr. Lewis and Mrs. Raizy Stein of Lawrence on the bat mitzvah of their daughter Sara. Mazal tov also to sisters Rachel, Daniella, and Shira. Sara attends Shulamith. The...
View ArticleTaking A Haircut Holiday
By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Shulchan Aruch (O.C. 531:1) writes that there is a mitzvah to take a haircut on erev yom tov. The Pri Megadim is unsure if the mitzvah is that one should ensure his hair...
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Living Jewish History In The Munkacser Sukkah
Beis Haknesses Nefutsot Yehudah,1799, Gibraltar Choral Synagogue, 1903,Vilnius, Lithuania Langside Shul, 1927, Glasgow, Scotland Munkacser Rebbe and Eli Vegh Lancut Shul, 1763, Poland Machberes: Inside...
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