Real Estate with Anessa: Apartment Living in the Five Towns
There have always been discussions about the apartment inventory in the Five Towns. Aside from the question of availability, there’s the matter of whether or not the apartment complexes...
Schmutter: Zooming Around Town
Welcome back to “How Should I Know?” — the advice column that is perfect for these uncertain times, as it itself is never really certain.
Dear Mordechai,
Is there a good...
Swastikas displayed at Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests against vaccination mandates
(JTA) — Swastikas and other symbols of hate were on display at the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” protests against vaccination mandates in Ottawa on Saturday that prompted Prime Minister Justin...
Yochanan Gordon: Kol Korehs and Excommunications
The current kashrus debate is very much on people’s minds and in their conversations these days. It seems to be a highly contentious issue, conjuring deep emotion and excitement...
Real Estate: German Colony to Get Light Rail
By Ben Levene
Sales Director
Licensed Real Estate Agent in Israel
CapitIL Real Estate Agency
In major news from Jerusalem this week, the German Colony is having a new light rail line built,...
Yid Parenting: Shul Talk
Thank you for all the work you put in to your parenting blog. The issue I’m having is not with my children, but with other children. In shul on...
Undefeated MSH Torah Bowl
By: Ayala Feder, MSH 2021
This past Thursday, the MSH Torah Bowl team had their first meet. After weeks of studying the p’shat and Rashi of the first parshiot of...
Letters to the Editor: Is Israel Truly a Democracy?
Dear Editor,
I am writing in response to the article by Toby Klein Greenwald on page 40 of the March 13 issue of the 5TJT, titled “Reaching Across the Aisles,”....
Israel’s Yair Lapid condemns ‘horrific images’ emerging from Bucha, as Israeli balancing act on...
(JTA) — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has joined an international chorus condemning what appears to be mass civilian casualties in areas of Ukraine where Russian troops are pulling...
Yid Parenting: Yearbook Humor
My son is currently in eighth grade, and he’s facing an issue that my eleventh-grader dealt with a few years ago. It’s called “yearbook.” My older son was made...
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By Malkie Gordon Hirsch
Most people don’t get it. And it’s not that they don’t try, but they’re simply not equipped with the tools to...
A Wonderful Whirlwind Weekend
By Larry Gordon
It is not that my parents invented weekend bar mitzvahs, but that’s exactly how we celebrated about a half-century ago. At the...
Breaking Dawn Plus
By Larry Gordon
Seventeen years ago this week, the order was issued to forcibly evacuate residents of Gush Katif, about 10,000 people who courageously built communities...