Yid Parenting: Put This Issue To Bed

Question: My parents agreed that I can email you regarding a fight we’re having. My friends have bedtimes of 10 and later, and my parents make me go into bed...

The Way It Is: Adjustable Loans

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be / For loan oft loses both itself and friend” is a famous passage from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and indeed those words ring...

Night Flower: Chapter 13, Part I

By Esther Rapaport “You didn’t finish your compote, Rachel,” Elsie said. Rachel wrinkled her nose. “Compote is such a hospital word,” she said. “In the dorm we don’t usually have dessert...

Real Estate with Anessa: Surviving The Cooperative

The New York Times real-estate section regularly discusses the problems with co-op boards in various parts of the city. The most recent one that made me laugh was a letter...

Editor’s Blog: Jerusalem Diary in Video

5TJT Publisher Larry Gordon is in Israel this week. Follow his journey on our 5TJT YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/Otj1sjd8xP0

Dating Forum: Can Introvert and Extrovert Work?

Question I’m an introvert, and I am going out with an extrovert, a girl who talks nonstop. She doesn’t just talk about life; she always talks about herself. She can...

Heard at the Bagel Store: Jerusalem Diary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PufX6C2mS7g It’s summer here in Israel’s capital city. The streets are teeming with people, and it is truly an exciting time in the age of Donald Trump. My focus this...

From the Editor: Bring Them Home

It’s the fourth anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, where the objective was to eliminate or at least deal a crushing blow to the terrorist scourge in Gaza. It is...

News From the Hills: Some of My Least Favorite Things

  Two weeks ago, on Shabbos Tishah B’Av, I celebrated my Hebrew birthday. Now, exactly two weeks later and again on Shabbos, it’s my English birthday and I’m giving myself...

Mindbiz: Stress and Mind-Body Connection

Dear Esther, I’m very concerned about my sister. She has a lot of tough issues to deal with in her life. Her husband is not a particularly kind, decent person....
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Israeli Forces Push Deeper into Khan Yunis; 250 Hamas Targets Hit

JOSHUA MARKS (December 10, 2023 / JNS) Israeli forces continued to advance into the Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday,...

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