Getting That Shot
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world as we know it. However, life may slowly creep back to the way it once was, and that is largely due to...
Bagel Store: Work In Progress
Many people who are “looking” are searching for one or both of the following: Jobs and, the other part of this equation, shidduchim.
If you can make sure, or at...
Breaking News Habit
It is difficult but necessary. I’m trying to reduce the amount of news that I consume because, for now anyway, I’m weary and need a break.
I think I’m slowly...
From the Editor: Closed and Open
The worst thing you can say about Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio is that despite having aides who are members of the Jewish community, at the...
From the Editor: Here Now the News
In the 1970s and 80s, there was a newsman on WABC TV in New York who began his nightly broadcasts with the words in this article’s headline. Every night...
Bagel Store: Treasures of the South
Home prices in South Florida have shot up during the last few months, mostly thanks to the twisted and largely brainless policies of two people in New York —...
Bagel Store: Tale of Two Fasts
I suppose I should have realized when the third day of Teves was on Friday that the following Friday was going to be the tenth, one of our six...
Bagel Store: The Jewish Week, OB’M
In days gone by it would have been a natural and even expected consequence of some of our reporting. But that was when The Jewish Week, a once-upon-a-time weekly...
Bagel Store: Heartbroken
By Larry Gordon
“Your father is here; he sees you and will guide you, but you just cannot see him.”
Those words were spoken to two of my grandchildren on Friday...
Bagel Store: A Yeshiva Odyssey
The other day I was talking about my early yeshiva days with my neighbor and friend Idel Kolodny. We tend to talk about specifically my early days in yeshiva...
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Sa’ar: We’d like to help the Palestinians, but only after our residents are vaccinated
New Hope chairman on CNN: If the Palestinians have money to pay terrorists, they can also take care of their residents’ health.
New Hope party...
The Rabbinical Alliance of America Calls for A National Return to Civility, Dialogue and...
The Rabbinical Alliance of America—Igud HaRabbonim, representing over 950 American rabbis—calls for a national return to civility, dialogue and respect. Tragically, we live in...
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer describes painful associations of seeing ‘Camp Auschwitz’ T-shirt
(JTA) — Longtime CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that he was happy that his late parents, survivors of the Holocaust, did not live...