The 5 Towns Jewish Times

I received a message more than a week ago about a time-sensitive issue. The message was accompanied by a photo of a group of...

This week we marked six years since my mother, Sora Rosa bas Ahron, Rosalind Gordon, passed away. She was an extraordinary mother, easygoing, fiercely...

Developing pictures from my phone has always been a struggle for me. Last we spoke, I told you about almost deleting my entire inbox and...

As choref z’man nears its end, and with Pesach not far away, it is more than a bit poetic that I am doing what...

At what point do you tell girls to start dating divorced guys? I am now getting close to my 32nd birthday as a never-married...

If you have ever compared yourself to someone else, you are not alone. According to some studies, as much as 10 percent of our...

Like many people who are reading this, English is my first language and Yiddish is my second. Learning Yiddish was vital to my childhood...

So I’m still on the phone. If you don’t recall from last week’s article, or have blocked it out, I’m currently trying to transfer phone...

Next week, March 25, is Yesh Tikvah’s infertility awareness Shabbat. Yesh Tikvah is an organization whose mission is to create awareness and offer education...

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch “Ever feel like life had been going so predictably for so long that you began to expect things to happen the...

The left in Israel has learned everything they know from the way in which the left functions here in the United States. A Jewish leftist,...

Though the title of this article may imply otherwise, don’t think that my fondest recollection of the Pesachs of yore is solely about cake...

Why has politics been allowed to enter shidduchim? Why does it matter that I’m a Republican? Why does it matter that I was in...

At IDrinkKosher.com, you’ll never pay retail again. With super service and case pricing as their core focus, they are kosher wine and spirits specialists....

I’m on the phone. No one loves sitting on the phone with customer service, but you’d think that the most efficient companies for this—the ones...

By Sivan Rahav-Meir Over the past month, I spent one Shabbat in New York, another in London, and still another in Jerusalem. The words of...

These are the real-life, hard economic facts—incomes are not keeping up with the cost of food, and that is especially true in our community...

We are fortunate that former Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s term was short-lived and that we escaped the type of damage he could have done...

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch I might be taking a shot in the dark here, but on the chance that there are other mothers out there...

I have always had a big soft spot in my heart for painting rocks. From playdates to day camps, I’ve always found that there’s...

Dear Elisheva, My wife and I have been married for almost three years, and this issue has only gotten worse over that time. Baruch Hashem,...

Question I am not so new to dating. It’s been about five years, so I pretty much know most of the eligible guys out there....