My New Pen Pal
By Hannah Reich Berman When I was growing up, many of my friends had pen pals. I had one. I no longer remember her name or where she lived, but I do remember the thrill of coming home from school and...
View ArticleThe Shabbat Project 2015 Generates One Million Stories
At the conclusion of Shabbat Project, the hash-tagged pictures started appearing on the event’s website and social media around the world, showing hundreds of thousands of wildly enthusiastic people...
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Founding Mother Of The Five Towns
Rabbi and Rebbetzin Kamenetzky at an award function The Kamenetzky family early years Wedding of Binyamin and Tzirel Kamenetzky Rebbetzin Tzirel Kamenetzky, ה״ע By Michele Justic What is a Jewish...
View ArticleOff The Bench, Into The Game
By David J. Seidemann, Esq. Wednesday evening, Oct 28, presented a bit of a dilemma for me. My beloved New York Mets were playing on Fox, and the Republican debate was airing on CNBC. In the old days,...
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The Mets And The Jews
Matt Harvey By Larry Gordon How can we ignore the distracting late-into-the-night sports spectacle that has been taking place here in New York and dominating lives over the last few weeks? Even the...
View ArticlePraying On The Temple Mount
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Recently, the National Council of Young Israel, under the direction of Farley Weiss, issued the following statement regarding the Temple Mount: “The National...
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Rabin And Kahane
Rabbi Meir Kahane Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin By Larry Gordon Israelis and Jews everywhere observed the yahrzeits of two unique personalities over the last few days who shared at least two similar...
View ArticleA Clear Vision
By Phyllis J. Lubin So many times I’ve considered the concept. So many times I’ve deliberated if this was worth doing. After all, I only need glasses to drive . . . A few years ago, I asked my eye...
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Achiezer’s Second Annual Eldercare Plus Conference
Scenes from Achiezer’s Eldercare Plus Conference Scenes from Achiezer’s Eldercare Plus Conference Scenes from Achiezer’s Eldercare Plus Conference Scenes from Achiezer’s Eldercare Plus Conference...
View ArticleNews From The Hills
By Chanita Teitz The terror continues in EretzYisrael. While some days are more subdued, on other days we hear of multiple stabbings or attempts that are thankfully intercepted before anyone gets hurt....
View ArticleWater, Water Not Everywhere
By Shmuel Katz The weather in Israel these past few weeks has been stupendously wet. Storm after storm has blown through and we’ve had some significant amounts of rain. In fact, I read that Ra’anana...
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Shepping Nachas With Shulamith
Fourth-graders at Shulamith with their new sefarim At the Shulamith Shabbaton Shulamith students admiring model synagogues at the YU Museum Gala Breakfast As Fourth-Graders Learn Yehoshua On Thursday,...
View ArticleProfiting From Loss
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Here’s the case: A yeshiva is in trouble. Its mortgage, now up to $9.65 million, has not been paid and the bank now wants to minimize its exposure. Unbeknownst to...
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Stranded In Germany
Globe-trotter Phyllis Koegel conferswith a potential client Leo “Zeidi” Bleier, father of the author Leo Bleier as a young man By Phyllis Koegel Marketing Director, OU Kosher When I was growing up, my...
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‘We Heard A Boom’
Guests in Hebron last Shabbos Dovi Weiss with Ronen and Eli Borochov Yosef, Ronen, and Eli Borochovin Hebron By Larry Gordon They had already davenedMinchah early last Friday afternoon before returning...
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Reality Check: AIPAC Is Not Israel
Jeff Ballabon By Jeff Ballabon Last month, this paper published a piece I wrote (“How AIPAC Failed Us,” October 9) arguing that AIPAC misinforms the Orthodox Jewish community about its policies and...
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A Day In DC
Pictured above (L–R): Rep. Lee Zeldin, Eli Verschleiser, Miles Berger, Joseph B. Stamm,Sol Goldner, Foreign Affairs Chair Ed Royce, Stanley Treitel, Ezra Friedlander,and Leon Goldenberg. Pictured on...
View ArticleIt Was An Accident
By Rabbi Meir Orlian David was visiting his friend Moshe. “I need to run over to the pharmacy to pick something up,” he said. “I wish I had my car here!” “You can take my car,” said Moshe. “I’d drive...
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The Kuzari
Khazar coin referencing Moses foundin the Spillings Hoard Borders of the Khazar Empire People Of The Book: Classic Works Of The Jewish Tradition By Dr. Henry Abramson A bold, even defiant statement of...
View ArticleThe Internet, Social Media, And The Elderly
By Anita Kamiel, RN, MPS Many might think that social media is the exclusive domain of the younger generation. However, many older adults have enthusiastically adopted it to keep up with the times as...
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