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Focusing on Executive Function in Middle School Students
Stacy Mayer is a wife, mother of five, lawyer, educator, and currently a child advocate. She successfully initiated the “Buddy Bench” system at HAFTR’s...
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Mindbiz: Standing Up in a Relationship
Dear Esther,
When I started dating Suri, many moons ago, I was totally taken with her ability to convey her ideas so perfectly. She was...
Dating Forum: For Love Or Money
Question:
I was very young when I got married for the first time. When I came home from seminary I only dated boys who learned...
The Kiddush Club Crisis
By Yochanan Gordon
It seems that for anything to get attention in the Jewish community, it needs to be termed a “crisis.” Thankfully, from a...
Bagel Store: Midterm Madness
We are at the cusp of one of the most important elections in generations. There isn’t one race in the whole bundle of political...
From the Editor: Original Purveyors of Fake News
They are the originators of fake news, long before it was known by its current moniker. And today, though it has been exposed as...
News From the Hills: Highlights From Israel
I keep trying to write about the highlights of our trip to Israel and I realize that the trip itself is a highlight. We...
Letters to the Editor: The Left Is Livid
The Wrong Side Of The Issue
Dear Editor,
As I was reading the names Schumer, Feinstein, Nader, and Blumenthal in “The Left is Livid” (From the...
Dating Forum Preview: Choosing Between Love and Luxury
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Question:
I was very young when I got married for the first time. When I came home from seminary I only dated boys who learned...
How Your Smart Phone Can Sabotage Your Relationship
By Tamara Hirsch, LMFT
I have been on an anti-phone and social media rant. Two weeks ago I wrote about social media dictating our happiness...
Schmutter: Snake In The Grass
I think I have to figure out how to take care of a pet snake.
I didn’t ask for this snake. No one asks for...
Yid Parenting: Fit For Royalty
Question:
I’m a ten-year-old girl writing this letter (with help from my mother). My parents want me to dress in a way that they say...
The Way It Is: Message Received
It is said that every cloud has a silver lining. For me, never have these words been truer than with regard to the almighty...
Schmutter: Ig Nobel Prizes and Practical Applications
It’s time once again to talk about the annual Ig Nobel Prizes, a spoof of the Nobel Prizes that celebrates people who are advanced...
Real Estate with Anessa: Redirected
My husband went to a shiur the other night and came back with a story that I thought I would share. The rabbi giving...
Right View: At Auschwitz, Part 2
By Dr. Alex Sternberg
Books have been written, many by survivors, about arriving in Auschwitz, describing the conditions that awaited them. Although some accounts differ,...
Night Flower: Chapter 16, Part I
By Esther Rapaport
The children fidgeted excitedly near the counter. It was no wonder; when was the last time they had seen their mother take...
The Way It Is: Fishy Business
For as long as most people of my generation can remember, certain foods were always considered non-kosher. I never consumed swordfish or sturgeon. They...
Letters to the Editor: Kiddush Club
Rabbi Hoffman:
If I may make you aware, this phenomenon does not just exist in shuls where the Rabbi delivers a drosho. I happen to...
24th Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation Dinner October 21
The 24th Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation Dinner will take place at 4 p.m. on October 21, at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, 60 West...
Aliyah Chronicle: Democracy Calls
By Shmuel Katz
It’s election season for you in the U.S. You’ve got the midterm elections coming up in about a month, and all the...
Mindbiz: Dealing With the Difficulties of Yom Tov
Dear Esther,
With the yomim tovim over, I’m having a very hard time shaking this feeling that I’ve felt from Rosh Hashanah and on. There...
Parenting: Working Your Way Out of a Job
By Dvorah Levy, LCSW
I had been lamenting to friends about my empty nest until, over the summer, two birds, weeks apart, found their way...
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Williamsburg Leaders Meet With Health Department to Stem Spread of Measles
BROOKLYN– Leaders and school administrators from the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg met Thursday at the offices of United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn...
Parker Jewish Institute Establishes New Palliative Care Unit
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation has opened a new eighth-floor, six-bed Palliative Care Unit, dedicated to providing relief from the symptoms...
Study: Regular Tefillin Use Can Protect Men During Heart Attacks
(JTA) — Has your Rabbi told you attending morning minyan is good for your health? He may be right.
Jewish men who wrap tefillin around...
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Keep Breathing: A Testimonial by Ari Fuld, zt’l
By Ari Fuld
I am having a hard time breathing. Last night, a Jewish father was on his way home when he was brutally murdered...
Rabbi Dovid Kaminetsky Is Niftar
We regret to inform you of the sudden passing of Rabbi Dovid Kaminetsky, beloved father of Katz Yeshiva High School Executive Director Shimmie Kaminetsky,...
Novak: Crime Causes Poverty, Not The Other Way Around
One of the great misconceptions of modern times, one that afflicts conservatives and liberals alike, is the widely accepted notion that poverty serves as...