By Esther Mann, LMSW
Dear Esther, I read your column and read about all sorts of problems that come up sooner or later in marriages. So here’s a new one for you. I haven’t read anything like this, and I wonder what you think about my problem.
My wife (“Eva”) and I have been married for about a year and a half.
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By Hannah Reich Berman
While Caller ID is a marvelous invention, it no longer serves much purpose for me. For quite a while now, my eyesight hasn’t cooperated; it doesn’t allow me to read the name or number that appears on the screen. Eyeglasses would do the trick, but searching for them is an exercise in futility, because by the time I find them the caller has hung up.
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By Anessa V. Cohen
One of the great things about our society is that whether times are good or times are bad, humor always shows its face in new and sometimes creative ways. As with all frustrations, changing it into something funny or something you can have a quick laugh with makes life so interesting.
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By Arye Nisonson
A report surfaced this week saying that one of Israel’s most prolific chareidi fundraisers recently returned from a trip to the United States with only $15,000 instead of the $700,000 he was planning to raise.
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First Aid Kit For Jewish Marriages, Part 2
By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, M.A.
If you would like to know if your marriage is relationship-centered or not, the way to find out is to ask yourself about your core values.
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Our Aliyah Chronicle, Part 96
By Shmuel Katz
As the U.S. elections neared, the frenzy over absentee balloting among Americans in Israel reached a fever pitch. For months, we had been seeing e-mail postings from various people either looking for information or posting information on how to register for absentee ballots. It wasn’t really that difficult to do.
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By Larry Gordon
As the American government begins its transition, supporters of Israel watch with bated breath from the sidelines, trying to interpret the different moves and appointments of the incoming administration and wondering how they will impact the State of Israel.
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The Rockaway Irregular
By Stuart W. Mirsky
Well, it’s finally over—and about time, too. After two years of seemingly endless campaigning and eight of partisan bickering and recriminations, the country appears to have turned a historic corner, giving us our first African-American president in a broad liberal sweep across the two major branches of government.
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By Larry Gordon
The plan is for this writer to report to you for the next two issues of this publication from our base in Jerusalem. As usual, there is a great deal of things going on and I’m working on setting up a schedule that allows me to share with you impressions, for a change, from inside of Israel instead of from this distant observation post.
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Another Mother’s Musings
By Phyllis Lubin
As my husband and I pulled into the gas station yesterday, he again offered me what he has offered me periodically for the past 20-plus years of marriage: “Would you like to learn how to self-serve the gas this time?”
“No, thank you,” I replied.
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Clean Mitzvos
By Rabbi Avrahom Sebrow
Let’s say you are a ba’al ha’bayis sitting at your Shabbos table. Mayim acharonim is passed around the table. Shir HaMa’alos is sung. Then you notice that the guests are wrinkling their noses. You take a whiff yourself and realize something isn’t right. You look down and your precious little one is staring at you with cute adorable eyes.
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By Israel Teitelbaum
The result of the presidential election, and comments by many of our leaders, point to a new interpretation of civil rights that conflicts with its original meaning.
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By Shalom Pollack
The Rosh Hashanah before last, a small group of worshipers gathered at the “Kotel HaKatan” (a portion of the Western Wall tucked inside the Muslim Quarter in the Old City). As the shofar was blown, the Muslim neighbors complained to the police.
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