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On The Shloshim Of Robbie Schonfeld, ע״ה
Robbie Schonfeld with family and friends By Neal C. Goldberg, Ph.D. A time to laugh and a time to cry: Over the past 14 years, my relationship with Robbie oscillated between laughing and crying. The...
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Torah, Chuppah, And Ma’asim Tovim
This past Sunday was a memorable day for our family! We made a hachnasas sefer Torah that will not be forgotten. As we danced with this new Torah, paid for by the shidduchim that Tova and I made, the...
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Our Minication
The Katzes at the Carpentry The Aron Kodesh in the Cochin community Exploring Yad Mordechai Museum Farmer Goldie at Yad Mordechai By Shmuel Katz In the decade or more that we’ve been in Israel, we’ve...
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Learning Torah In The Shadow Of Death
Translated By P. Samuels The following poignant article is a translation of a clipping I recently received. It is an original clipping from the Morgen Journal (Jewish Journal), which was a popular...
View ArticleQuicken Loans And Halachah
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman First it was the thrips and aphids in the strawberries. Then it was the copepods in New York City water. And now, it is mortgages or refinancing from Quicken...
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Candid Camera
At the author’s bar mitzvah—L–R, standing: Rabbi Fred Hollander,Rabbi David B. Hollander, Roslyn Gordon, Rabbi Nison Gordon, Rabbi Moshe Sherer,Rabbi Elimelech Silber, Benno Zimmet. L–R, seated:...
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Super Bowl LI: A Message For The World
Tom Brady By Rabbi Yaacov Schwartz A lighthearted look at 11 reasons that this was the most important Super Bowl event ever! There is an iconic Jewish joke about the American Jewish kid who runs over...
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The Shabbos Factor
Getting the latest updates at the JPUpdates dinner Esta Gordon (center) with MK Yoel Hasson and Ann Stamm By Larry Gordon Anti-Defamation League executive director emeritus Abe Foxman believes that...
View ArticleCatching A Break
By Hannah Reich Berman Many Jews fast on Yom Kippur. Others do not. Never having seen, or even heard of, a study conducted on the percentage of those who do and those who do not fast, I can only...
View ArticleWhat Your Child Wishes You Knew
Advice From YidParenting By Rabbi Yitzie Ross Yes, you are great parents. (Unless I’m mad at you, in which case I’ll say you’re not.) Really, you are. Yeshiva is so important. However, if you give me a...
View ArticleNavigating A Brighter Future
Frum Divorce’s Mission Of Hope For Parents And Children By Rochelle Maruch Miller Divorce can be a most traumatic, life-altering experience, leaving families bereft and broken. For the Torah-observant...
View ArticleDATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow Question If anyone thinks that a guy’s heart cannot be broken, they are wrong. There was this amazing girl I knew from camp, and I always liked her. We got along so great, and I...
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Trump Tells Netanyahu To ‘Hold Back’ On Settlements, Vague On Two-State Solution
Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump in Washington on Wednesday By Sean Savage President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held their first joint press conference Wednesday,...
View ArticleMerchant Cash Advances
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman There is a relatively new business in which huge profits are being made—it’s called merchant cash advances. This business is also relatively safe for the investor. According to...
View ArticleWaving The Flag Our Aliyah Chronicle
By Shmuel Katz About two weeks ago, a soldier failed to report for duty. He had been in the army for several months already and I am sure that he had reasons that led him to go AWOL. But that doesn’t...
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Spirits And Spirituals
Judd Joffree Jamie Geller, Dini Franklin, and Esta Gordon Tzvi Schachter of Miami Beach Chocolates Jonathan Shore of Great Falls Bistro Dinner is served It’s wine o’clock By Larry Gordon It was a night...
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Open And Shut
By Rabbi Dov Fischer In a landmark ruling this month barring its congregations from employing women rabbis (including but not limited to a ban on “Maharats,” “Morateinus,” and whatever other nicknames...
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Murdered A Second Time
Rabbi Shnayer Leiman By Larry Gordon The government of Lithuania, enjoying great distance from the spotlight of global daily news reporting, is on the verge of committing a serious affront to Jews...
View ArticleHanging Out With The Cousins
Advice From YidParenting By Rabbi Yitzie Ross This question was distributed to the YidParenting e‑mail base as part of a contest to discern the best response. This answer was chosen by Rabbi Ross as...
View ArticleDATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow Question I went out with an amazing learning guy—exactly the type of guy I always wanted—about ten times. On our last date together, he told me that he was diagnosed with ADD when he...
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