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Dutch Resistance Hero Wants Recognition for Fellow Jewish Fighters
BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Shortly after her capture by the Nazis in 1944, Dutch resistance fighter Selma van de Perre was transferred from a...
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Officially Recognizes Ethiopian Jews
BY MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has officially recognized the Beta Israel Jewish community from Ethiopia as Jewish.
The ruling issued in November, but first...
Israel News
Current Issue
From the Editor: Racist Representations
Israel’s defense minister Naftali Bennett is willing to sacrifice the possible advent of a solid right-wing government after Israel’s March elections because of a...
Letters to the Editor: Women Learning Gemara
Dear Editor,
I applaud Yochanan Gordon’s eloquent defense of the choice by an expanding group of women to learn daf yomi (Inside Out, “The Third...
Mindbiz: How Can I Be More Real?
Dear Esther,
I am a fake! I don’t think anyone, including my husband, truly knows the real me. And I’m not sure why, but lately...
Yid Parenting: Success for All Children
Question:
I’ve been grappling with the decision of letting you respond publicly to this question for many months. On the one hand, I’m scared my...
Letters to the Editor
Irresponsible Advice
Dear Editor,
I was extremely dismayed to read “Monsey Stabber: A Halachic Analysis” in the January 3 issue. The author, although insisting he was...
Schmutter: A Shabbos Walk in the Dark
There comes a time in every marriage when your wife is going to want to go walking, and you’re going to want to go...
Bagel Store: Only for the Children
It’s been a dream a long time in the making. It started as a shadow of a wish and a hope. The question was...
Malkie Hirsch: Friends
By Malkie Hirsch
You know those people you can go months without speaking to but when you do, it’s like no time has passed? There...
Yid Parenting: Beating Bullying
Question:
Our son is in third grade and is getting bullied. He’s being mercilessly picked on during the bus ride to and from yeshiva, and...
From the Editor: Jerusalem Diary
They say it rained like wild here last week. The downpours were torrential and there was flooding in parts of the country. Here in...
Dating Forum: Can I Lie to Get Redt Shidduchim I Want?
Question
I am a bachur in my early twenties. I have never been married; yet, for reasons I don’t know, shadchanim have been asking me...
Mindbiz: Is Therapy Just for Crazy People?
Dear Esther,
I am a 44-year-old male. I would say I grew up in a functional home with normal, average parents who did their best...
My Journey: Set Up the Singles
In the world of shidduchim, I think that singles are looking out for themselves. They don’t tend to think of their friends and who...
Heard in the Bagel Store: Taking the Lead
It is a confluence of prominent women in the Five Towns and surrounding communities who have been meeting for most of the last year...
Letters to the Editor: What to Do About Antisemitism
Repeal “No Bail” Law
Dear Editor,
My mother often recounted how her brother, at the young age of 14, arrived home one day, suitcase in hand....
From the Editor: The Official Response
Just about no one wants a war or even a street fight, not in the Golan Heights and not in Crown Heights.
Almost suddenly these...
Unexpected
By Malkie Hirsch
Lately I’ve been noticing how many of our interactions involve posing and answering questions.
Some are conversational, like “How’s your day?”
Others are more...
Real Estate with Anessa: What We See in 2020
December came in with a lot of bad news from a variety of places. The first and most disturbing were the terrible tragedies occurring...
Mindbiz: Is My Daughter Turning Into My Sister?
Dear Esther,
My older sister Anita is in her forties and never got married. Honestly, I’m not so sure she ever will or if she...
Dating Forum: Finding a Match in the 60+ Crowd
Question
I read your column, and most of the letters you get are about young people who are in shidduchim. They ask you for advice,...
Book Review: Recipes From Auschwitz
Survival Stories of Hungarian Jews Olga Elek and Marton Sternberg
By Michele Justic
Besides the total annihilation of the Jews, the Nazis also sought to erase Jewish...
The Way It Is: The Height of Fashion
Many years ago, when I would buy dress shoes, the only thought I gave to the height of the heel was that nothing shorter...
Lifestyle
A Year After Premiere of Who Will Write Our History, Nancy Spielberg Reflects
By Michele Justic
The last time 5TJT interviewed Nancy Spielberg, Who Will Write Our History had not yet made its grand premiere on International Holocaust...
Jerusalem Restaurants Raise Awareness of Plight of Agunot
Chefs from 12 leading restaurants have each created a special dish on their menus that expresses their personal concept of freedom as part of...
Employees Become Owners at Chicago’s Kosher Barbecue
CHICAGO (JTA) — A group of longtime employees is taking ownership of Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed, the popular kosher restaurant here that has...
Editors Blog
Editor’s Blog: Our Education Crisis
Rabbis have written opinion pieces warning that children in the yeshiva community are under siege by the New York State Education Department. They were...
POSSIBLE PEACE PROPOSALS
It might be rolled out fairly soon, but, then again, it may take another six months to a year. That is the Trump administration’s...
Editor’s Blog: Larry Gordon Heads to the Polls
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