Charity Begins At Home
By Yehuda Meshi-Zahav ZAKA Chairman and Founder As the terror attacks continue on an almost daily basis in Israel, a new debate about medical ethics has taken center stage. In mid-December, the Israel...
View Article2015 In Review
By Joseph Frager, MD 2015 was one of the worst years ever when it comes to terrorism. Here is a sampling. It started on January 7, when 12 people were brutally murdered at the offices of Charlie Hebdo...
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A Piece Of Shlomo
Reb Shlomo Carlebach, a’h Abe Kugielsky with Carlebach guitar Some of the items in the Carlebach collection Larry Gordon trying out Shlomo Carlebach’s piano at the J. Greenstein gallery The Jewish...
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No Hechsher For Hillary
By Alan Skorski In a recent column in New York’s Jewish Week, OU Kosher’s CEO, Rabbi Menachem Genack, took the unusual step of endorsing Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. For an...
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Wounded Terrorists
Eli Beer of Hatzalah on an emergency call By Larry Gordon The head of the Israel-founded international rescue organization ZAKA has insisted and reiterated that its volunteers will delay providing...
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Treating Terrorists First – A Halachic Analysis
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 Medical Association...
View ArticleIn the Rebbe’s court
Rabbi Pesach Schmerling Chabad of Far Rockaway It was a cold winter day as we walked to daven Minchah with the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l at 770 Eastern Parkway. It was an ordinary Wednesday; the date was...
View ArticleVa’eira: Throw Small Stones
From Where I Stand By Rabbi Yossy Goldman “Gratitude is an attitude,” some wise man must have surely said once upon a time. In this week’s parashah, the Torah demonstrates to what lengths Jewish...
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Maccabis And More
By Judah Rhine Flatbush 45, HALB 33. The Flatbush Falcons seventh-graders defeated HALB in a hard-fought contest to remain undefeated at 4–0. The game started off even and Flatbush led by 8–7 after one...
View ArticleFrom The Chassidic Masters: What Is G‑d’s Answer?
Last week’s parashah concluded with the epochal exchange between Moshe and G‑d over the mystery of human suffering. Moshe protested, “My G‑d, why have You done evil to this people?”; and G‑d replied:...
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Netanyahu Says UN Bias Hasn’t Changed
Chaim Herzog, Israeli ambassador to the UN, condemning Resolution 3379 in the General Assembly on November 10, 1975. Knesset marks 40th anniversary of Ambassador Chaim Herzog tearing up infamous...
View ArticleThe New ‘Ben Pekuah’ Meat
Is It Kosher? By Rabbi Yair Hoffman There is a new type of meat that is about to enter the kosher consumer market, and it is stirring up some serious controversy. The Hebrew-language Mishpacha magazine...
View ArticleThe Price Is Not Right
Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz I have been feeling emotionally conflicted lately. We are still mired in what seems like a never-ending parade of terror attacks. While they don’t occur daily, they...
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The Taxman Cometh
By Larry Gordon The Jewish community in New York, by and large, might carry the heaviest tax and financial burdens of any one specific group or community anywhere in the country. Just take a look...
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Letters To The Editor
Rabbi Menachem Genack,CEO of OU’s Kosher Division Stop The Attack On Rabbi Genack Dear Editor, Despite never having lived in the Five Towns, I enjoy reading the 5TJT every Shabbos. Among the reasons I...
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Man Of The Future
Ambassador Danny Danon By Larry Gordon Being Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations is probably one of the most high-pressure and important jobs in the diplomatic corps of Israel. That’s why it was...
View ArticleThe New Commercially Produced Ben Pekuah Meats
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times There is a new type of meat, called Ben Pekuah Meat, that is about to enter the kosher consumer market, and it is stirring up some serious...
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Feel The Ruach
Yeshivas Ruach Chaim in Brooklyn was recently honored to host a kabbalaspanim for the Slabodker Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Moshe Hillel Hirsh, shlita.
View ArticleActive Imagination
By Mordechai Schmutter Today we bring you some exciting news in the field of exercise. (Yes, the field of exercise. I picture an actual field where people exercise, mostly by plowing and tilling,...
View ArticleCertificate Of Completion
By Anessa V. Cohen Here we are in January 2016; you would think that Superstorm Sandy of October 2012 would be ancient history and not worth talking about anymore. Well, I am sorry to say that there...
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