The 5 Towns Jewish Times

Evidently, religious crimes have a color! Encouraging us to penitence, Yeshayahu the prophet exhorts us to whiten our “red” sins: “If your sins are...

Should you bring your kids to shul? This is a question that has been pestering Jewish fathers since the time of Yaakov and Eisav. Your...

   Dear Elisheva, My problem is on a low simmer most of the time, but Yom Kippur time it always explodes. I know that I have...

A call came in last week from a homeowner asking me to come and see his house, since he was ready to sell it...

Rosh Hashanah is here and there is so much to think about and to articulate. The question is where to start. Where will these...

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I get nostalgic around this time of year. And although I’m sure many people can share in my sentiments during this...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed sentiments of hope for the future regardless of what happens in the 2022 midterm elections in a...

By Talmidah Y In the years preceding seminary, I made a lot of calculations: My year will be the 56th year of Israeli-controlled Yerushalayim. I’ll...

This column that I have utilized to share my ideas with you, my dear readers, has run for about three years. At the outset,...

Preparing a house for sale is a subject I have addressed more than once, but boy, was I surprised when I opened an Israeli...

Question A great shidduch was suggested for my daughter. We’ve had an eye on this boy for a while, but whenever we asked a shadchan...

As a child, if for some reason I called to someone by saying, “Hey,” my mother would say, “Hay is for horses!” Like many other...

Dear Dr. Haimoff, I have a really hard time with the High Holidays. It’s not what you think—I like the davening and even hosting meals;...

I think I’ve figured out why I seem to be losing my memory. And it’s not because I’m getting older. I mean, I am...

Isn’t it odd how, often, momentous elections take place in the U.S. and Israel at about the same time? Over the last few years, Israel...

As we prepare for a new year and mark Rosh Hashanah in less than two weeks, while we are introspective about the past and...

A woman called our offices last week to find out where she could find our newspaper in Jackson, NJ. She said she is an...

By Hillel Fuld As the day approaches, the day we lost Ari, so does another day, the day of judgement, Rosh Hashanah. Every year, both these...

By Talmidah X I vividly remember my first pre-seminary freak-out. August 2013. Sleepaway camp trial week. Eight years old. I was sticking the last prepackaged outfit...

There is a segment from an old Seinfeld show, where George tells Jerry all the troubles he is dealing with in life while trying...

Question I played by the rules and did what everyone wanted me to do: top shiur in high school, yeshiva in Israel, learning and online...

When I was a child, summer was my absolute favorite season: The freedom of no school, going to camp and “the country,” indulging in...