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Southern Dynasty
Photo by Martin Schmidt Jerry Meyer Studio At a gala celebration held over Shabbos Chanukah, Rabbi Hershel Billet of the Young Israel of Woodmere formally installed his son, Rabbi Avi Billet, as the...
View ArticleHeschel Varsity Continues Its Roll
By Judah Rhine The Heschel Heat defeated Kushner at home for their 10th straight victory, raising their league record to 5–0. No player on the Heat’s ten-man team played more than half the game, but...
View ArticleTie-Breaker
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. It’s all so much clearer now. I just finished watching the latest Republican presidential debate, and can honestly say I have made up my...
View ArticleThe Syrian Refugee Danger
By Morton A. Klein Syrian immigrants pose a grave danger to all Americans. Top officials in the Obama administration have testified that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted. As FBI Director James...
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Women’s Torah Scholarship
Rabbanit Rachel Frenkel Rabbanit Malke Bina Rabbi Kenneth Hain By Larry Gordon Somewhere in Jerusalem, a group of as many as 50 women spend their days learning and studying pages of Gemara at Matan, a...
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Miracles For All
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, ob’m, viewing worldwide public menorah lightings By Rabbi Pesach Schmerling In last week’s issue of the 5TJT, Rabbi Yair Hoffman wrote an article titled “The Parameters of...
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Climate Change
Enrique Peña Nieto, François Hollande, Angela Merkel, and Michelle Bacheleton November 30 at the UN Climate Change Conference By Larry Gordon At first it strikes one as nearly complete nonsense. When...
View ArticleReal Life Mysteries
By Mordechai Schmutter One of the weirdest things about putting on your coat or jacket after months of not wearing it is all the weird things you find in the pockets. It’s like a time capsule. You get...
View ArticleOut For The Count
By Hannah Reich Berman Several months back, when Donald Trump let the country know that he was a presidential hopeful, I kvetched about him and I ridiculed him. To be candid, occasionally I still do....
View ArticleVain Attempts
By Five Towns Marriage Initiative When Yosef wanted to go up to Israel for his father’s burial, he needed to ask permission from Pharaoh. The commentators point out that Yosef did not go directly, but...
View ArticleGentile Inheritance
By Rabbi Meir Orlian Mr. Pierce belonged to a group committed to upholding the seven Noachide laws. Once a month they would meet with Rabbi Avraham to learn the Torah laws pertaining to them. “I...
View ArticleVayechi: Born In The USA
From Where I Stand By Rabbi Yossy Goldman ישימך אלקים כאפרים וכמנשה “May G‑d make you like Ephraim and Menasheh.” —Bereishis 48:20 There is a tradition when we conclude a book of Torah or Talmud that...
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Beis Knesses Celebrates R’ Aryeh Lebowitz
Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz By Rochelle Maruch Miller Over the past nine years, Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz has posted more than 5,000 shiurim on YUTorah.org on topics from daf yomi to iyun to machshavah to his...
View ArticleHasbarah 101
Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz Jewish schools the world over spend significant amounts of time and money trying to instill “Israel advocacy” in their students. When their students go out into the...
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Examining The Jewish–Christian ‘Partnership’
By Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold Rabbinic Director, JewishIsrael “They should say ‘nostra maxima culpa’—in plain Hebrew, chatanu—for rushing in where angels fear to tread.” —Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik Rabbi...
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Cooking With Gas
By Larry Gordon It is impossible to ignore the way in which the emphasis on food and food preparation has virtually exploded over the last decade or so in our communities. Who would have thought there...
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Widows And Orphans
An IDF rabbi teaches an IDF orphan how to wear tefillin at a mass bar mitzvah celebrationin Jerusalem Aharon Benita Bennett, a’h Nava Shoham-Solan Orphans at the IDFWO Chanukah camp By Larry Gordon...
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News From The Hills
By Chanita Teitz “A person wakes up in the morning, makes himself a cup of coffee. He puts the bitter coffee in a mug, adds to it the sweet sugar, pours in the boiling water, and adds some cold milk. A...
View ArticleIsraeli AG Rebuts Torture Allegation
By Ido Ben-Porat Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri, who paid a visit to the Jewish suspects being held over the deadly Duma arson attack, has forcefully rejected their attorneys’ claims of torture....
View ArticleTriage And The Treatment Of Terrorists
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It was the stuff of headlines. The ZAKA voluntary emergency service organization announced last Thursday that it would not abide by a directive from the Israel...
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