Beyond The Stacks: An Evening To Benefit The Levi Yitzchak Library, June 6
On Monday evening, June 6, the Levi Yitzchak Family Center presents “Night at the Library: A Cocktail & Dessert Reception” honoring Dr. Edward and Donna Stroh along with their son David, Rabbi...
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Touro’s Lander College Valedictorians
Yosef Dov Gottlieb Avi Jacob Aidel Ezagui Yaffa Leah Pacht Seth Levitin Five valedictorians were honored on Monday, May 30, at the 42nd commencement exercises of the Lander Colleges, held at David...
View ArticleUndocumented
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman It has happened numerous times, over thousands of years. Precious documents have been lost, causing serious repercussions. Passports, titles to vehicles, the...
View ArticleThe Gorilla Megilla
From The Other Side Of The Bench By David J. Seidemann, Esq. I finished teaching late last Thursday night and made my way to my neighbor’s son’s wedding. I was in Boro Park and the wedding was being...
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Being Jewish
Michael Douglas Edgar Bronfman Sr. Caroline Glick By Larry Gordon The annual Jerusalem Post Conference is an enjoyable and informative event at which to gauge the state of the Jewish union, so to...
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Obama Rewrites World War II
President Barack Obama with Hiroshima survivor Shigeaki Mori By Dr. Rafael Medoff Barack Obama appears to be rewriting the history of World War II. Speaking last week in Hiroshima, one of the two...
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Burned By The Bern
By Larry Gordon Senator Bernie Sandersand Secretary Hillary Clinton At the moment, it looks like we are being bamboozled and might have already been checkmated by Democratic presidential contender...
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Dairy Delight
Cressida Bell–inspired flower candy cake Kiss The Kosher Cook By Malkie Hirsch Every year, with the start of advertising for the various pre-Shavuos bake sales, I make a mental note: I will bake some...
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A Real Champion
Yeshiva University HS for Girls freshman and West Hempstead resident Estee Ackerman was honored as one of Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36” for 2016. Estee continues to make her community proud as the only...
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Jamming In June
Miracle On Hard Court: MTA Lions Defeat Top-Seeded Cobras By Ezra Wildes On Tuesday night, the MTA Lions tennis team came to the courts determined to win their last match of the season. After previous...
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Farewell To A Man Of Peace
By Lawrence Kulak This past week, we lost a giant of a man, who, aside from the shows he put on in the ring, demonstrated to the world the power of one man and his convictions. In 1964, soon after he...
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Shifting Leaders In Lawrence
Alex Edelman Uri Kaufman On June 21, Lawrence Village residents are urged to vote for a new mayor and two trustees. Martin Oliner, first elected in 2010, will not seek reelection as mayor due to term...
View ArticleIt’s Not About Winning
By Rav Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Sitting in my car in rush-hour traffic, I turned on the radio to catch up on the news of the day, and heard an interview with two superstars on the teams that were about to go...
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NY Stands With Israel
Governor Andrew Cuomo marching in this week’s Celebrate Israel Parade Governor Cuomo with legislators, including local state senator Todd Kaminsky (at right)at the signing ceremony for the anti-BDS...
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Power Politics
Danny and Elana Goldstein By Larry Gordon This is a supercharged political year, on every level. We underestimate and probably undervalue how fortunate we are to have a process that allows us, “the...
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Shavuot And Marriage
Esther Schonfeld (L)and Alexandra Weaderhorn A Leap Of Faith By Esther M. Schonfeld & Alexandra Weaderhorn When approached by G‑d to receive the Torah, the Jewish people responded, “Na’aseh...
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Sinai-Filled Cheesecake
Slice of delicious delicious raspberry cheesecake on a plate ready to eat By Larry Gordon My father, a’h, liked to say that while he enjoyed all the yomim tovim, he had a special affinity for Shavuos....
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Mariano Rivera Pitches In For Ohel
Event hosts David and Leah Brecher (far right) and family with Mariano Rivera The summer calls for grilling, chilling, and baseball. Then what do you get when you have Ohel, friends, family, an amazing...
View ArticleMaking A Minyan
There was once a minyan for an aveil somewhere in Suffolk County. There were only ten people present; one of them was a rav. The rav realized that the minyan was barely a minyan and that one of those...
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Catching Up On The Daf
A cat at ground level By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow There is a worrying epidemic called “high-rise syndrome” that affects many New York families. Cases are more prevalent in the summer months. One New York...
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