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Time Passages
By Larry Gordon
It was the morning of my father’s fifth yahrzeit. At the end of Shacharis, in a shul in Brooklyn, where we were...
DATING FORUM
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I am dating a woman who is divorced. She is a very nice young lady, and her divorce was amicable. In terms of finances,...
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The Strength Of Gavriel
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
As I watched his little form make its way to the back of the school building to the location of the...
Time Passages
By Larry Gordon
It was the morning of my father’s fifth yahrzeit. At the end of Shacharis, in a shul in Brooklyn, where we were...
Timing It Right: The Teens Win
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
There are two types of mindsets. There is the “teenage” mindset and there is the “adult” mindset. And this time, the...
Weighty Concerns
By Rachel Tuchman
Dear Rachel,
I have an 8-year-old daughter who is adorable, fun, bright—a great kid and really a pleasure. There’s just this one small...
DATING FORUM
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I am dating a woman who is divorced. She is a very nice young lady, and her divorce was amicable. In terms of finances,...
Chareidi Zionism
By Larry Gordon
Zionism is probably both the most maligned and misunderstood national movement in the history of credos of the world.
Back in 1975, the...
A Good Lemonade
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
The Facebook message popped up in a most understated way, as if I often gave the go-ahead to speak at other...
Dinner Is Served
By Larry Gordon
On Tuesday of this week, we had the opportunity to attend what we can now refer to as a good old-fashioned organizational...
Lights, Camera, Action
By Yochanan Gordon
To state that I am camera shy would be an understatement. I have no qualms about expressing my viewpoints on a plethora...
Senator Schumer And The Parashah
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
This week, there was a meeting between the Satmar Rebbe and Senator Schumer. The meeting caused a number of people to...
DATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow
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When did it start becoming so hard for girls to find a shidduch? My friends and I talk about this all the...
The Writing Gene
By Larry Gordon
It all starts with the ability and confidence to write a first sentence like this one. Once you have that first sentence...
Abracadabra
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
We’ve grown up thinking that that phrase “abracadabra” was a portal to something magical happening, and maybe there’s some truth to...
Here And There
By Larry Gordon
The interactions of the U.S. and Israeli governments have always been reminiscent of a real political tug-of-war.
There was the Jimmy Carter presidency...
Don’t Let COVID Destroy Our Torah Values
By Yair Hoffman
Last month, President Joe Biden announced his vaccine mandate plan. The immediate repercussions, according to Check Point Software Technologies, a global cybersecurity...
Fiscal Irresponsibility
By Yochanan Gordon
I am the furthest thing possible from an economist. I have always despised math; my parents paid for that when I was...
Love And Acceptance
By Betty Gulko
A struggle all throughout my life was to love myself. Not the superficial kind, but a true, deep, flaws-and-all type of love....
DATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow
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Everyone has been on my case to get married. I have a successful practice, own homes, and give lots of tzedakah to...
A Dad’s Divorce Doldrums
By Elisheva Liss
Dear Elisheva,
I’m writing this letter because I’m beside myself about my daughter, though she’s an adult already, in her thirties. She and...
Opening The Door
By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
I had started writing about something completely different earlier today, but when an unexpected visitor came to my door earlier and...
Judaism’s First-Responders
By Yochanan Gordon
The Kinus HaShluchim is a major organizational event that takes place year in and year out. What is regularly a sit-down dinner...
DATING FORUM
By Baila Sebrow
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Unfortunately, I became single about four years ago. At first, I went out with every woman suggested to me, because I thought...
Lifestyle
Jstay: Raising The Bar In Global Kosher Travel
Sholli Kestecher has long dreamed of providing Torah-observant travelers with a seamless experience. Blessed with keen business acumen, the personable London-born entrepreneur drew upon...
Colin Powell, who brokered the Middle East ‘road map’ to peace, dies at 84
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first Black U.S. national security advisor, the first Black military chief of...
David Eliach, beloved educator who led Yeshivah of Flatbush for decades, dies at 99
New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The longtime and pioneering leader of Brooklyn’s Yeshivah of Flatbush, Rabbi David Eliach, died Thursday.
Eliach, who was...