Little Is Much
By Rabbi Avi Shafran I must confess that I’m a hardened skeptic when it comes to most “inspirational” stories. Unless something has been attested to by unimpeachable witnesses or otherwise documented...
View ArticleThe Documentary Hype
By Rabbi Eric Kotkin If you had told me that 13 years after graduating from college I’d even be addressing the issue of “documentary hypothesis,” I’d tell you it’s not possible. From everything I’d...
View ArticleDress Frum, Not Frumpy
By Meira Schneider-Atik For those women who think they can’t afford new clothes, let alone “the really good stuff,” believe me when I tell you that I know what that’s like. Between the rent or mortgage...
View ArticleLOST IN TRANSLATION
by Tami Lehman-Wilzig - Back when I was growing up, the modern State of Israel was the center of the Jewish universe. It was at the core of being Jewish, tucked inside the greater American-Jewish...
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Repurposing your lulav and etrog
Binyamin Kagedan/JNS.org Click photo to download. Caption: Repurposing the etrog as b’samim (spices) for havdalah. Credit: Shivimpanim.org. Another High Holidays season is upon us, which means Sukkot...
View ArticleIsrael Becomes The Little Giant
Strategy Page August 19, 2013: Despite decades of Arab boycotts and pressure on countries to not deal with Israel, military exports from Israel continue to grow. In the last year Israeli firms sold...
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Esther Meshoe, Daughter of Prominent South African MP, ‘Saddened’ by...
Another prominent South African voice spoke up for Israel this past week, slamming the “propaganda” that tries to equate Palestinian conditions to those endured by blacks at the hands of white...
View ArticleNidal Hasan and Militant Islamic Perfidy
by Bill Levinson Dante’s Inferno assigns the worst parts of Hell to practitioners of perfidy: “fraudulent acts between individuals who share special bonds of love and trust.” Thousands of years of...
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Erdogan: ‘Israel is Behind the Coup in Egypt, We Have Evidence’
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed Tuesday that Israel was behind the recent Egyptian military coup that removed Islamist President Morsi from power, Turkish daily Today’s Zaman...
View ArticleFROM THE EDITOR – EGYPTS PLAGUES
By Larry Gordon It is said that as Egypt goes, so goes the Arab world and some even say the entire Middle East. Well, Egypt is going but no one is quite sure exactly where. The only thing that may be...
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Egyptian Catholic Church Leader Says Country in a ‘War Against Terrorism’
JNS.org - The ongoing turmoil in Egypt “is not a political struggle, but a war against terrorism,” the head of the Catholic Church in Egypt, Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria,...
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SWC Blasts ‘Horrific Anti-Semitic Character’ Roger Waters as ‘Disconnected...
Roger Waters’s pig balloon features a Star of David and is symbolically shot down during his performances. Photo: Screenshot. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,...
View ArticleLook at the Brave SOLDIER OF ALLAH
by Bill Levinson Palestinian Soldiers of Allah murder sleeping families (e.g. the Fogel family) at night. Soldier of Allah Nidal Hasan took an oath he never intended to keep (taqqiya), wore the...
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Livni: Israel Will Make ‘Dramatic Decisions’ in Peace Talks
AP – JERUSALEM – Israel will make “dramatic decisions” to reach a final peace agreement that will end the conflict with the Palestinians, Israel’s chief negotiator said Tuesday while warning that...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits Dachau, Expresses ‘Deep Sorrow and Shame’
Telegraph – Ahead of an evening election rally in Dachau, the nearby Bavarian town, she toured the memorial site at the camp and spoke with Holocaust survivors. Max Mannheimer, a camp survivor who...
View ArticleObama’s Strange Love Affair with the Muslim Brotherhood
By Roger L Simon, PC MEDIA It’s hard to fathom how or why our administration ever thought the Muslim Brotherhood saw democracy as other than a means to an end — and a particularly repellent one at that...
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Riding For Chai Lifeline
Over two hundred bicyclists, including many from the Five Towns and Far Rockaway, rode a 200-mile course to raise money for Chai Lifeline’s Camp Simcha. The riders spent two days negotiating the roads...
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A Tree Grows On Maple: Chabad’s Tree Of Life Partnership Club
In times of joy and sorrow, the families, singles, children, and elders of the Five Towns know they have a place to go: 74 Maple Avenue. This shul transforms itself daily to a school, community center,...
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Haber Releases New Television Ad: “Better”
Front row (L–R): Deputy Mayor Benjamin Weinstock;Mayor Andrew. J. Parise; and Bob and Randi Block with their grandchildren Macie and Jake from The Jewelry Showroom. Back row (L–R): Village...
View ArticleConcert Season Winds Down In Cedarhurst
Comedy ventriloquist and vocal illusionist Kenny Warren and Leroy Cool performed at Andrew J. Parise Park on Thursday. Kenny is a veteran professional ventriloquist with over 30 years’ experience and...
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