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September 2, 2026
Yeshiva University Launches Groundbreaking Online Undergraduate Degree Program and Immersive Israel Experience
Students will earn a Yeshiva University bachelor’s degree in a program that pairs in-person Torah study with a world-class business...
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Advice
September 2, 2026
What’s Sitting In Your Old 401(k)?
Even the most organized homes have that one spot. A junk drawer in the kitchen, a storage closet in the...
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Advice
September 2, 2026
The Happiness Gene
I just got back from Thailand where I took my daughter for her bat mitzvah trip. It was just the two of...
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Real Estate for Sale
September 2, 2026
Bavel Comes To The Five Towns
This is a story my husband Haim told me that is too cute not to share: “Today, my Indian neighbor...
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Health / Nutrition
September 2, 2026
Starting The Year Right With Your Hearing Health
There is a distinct energy that arrives with September. Across our neighborhoods, yellow school buses return to the roads, backpacks...
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Dating
September 2, 2026
DATING FORUM
Question I read your letter last week about the man who was dating a beautiful woman that everyone had warned...
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Torah
September 2, 2026
Musings Of A Shliach From Montana
Cemetery of Tovste, Ukraine where the Baal Shem Tov’s mother Sarah is buried Menny with Uri Lazar of Lawrence, who...
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Torah
September 2, 2026
Through The Ups And Downs
This week is a double parashah, Nitzavim and Vayeilech. In Nitzavim 30:3, the pasuk states, “Then Hashem your G-d will restore your fortunes and take you...
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Israel
September 2, 2026
More Than 1,100 North American Olim Make Aliyah This August, Marking Record Month of Aliyah
Credit Sivan Shachor More than 1,100 North American olim have made aliyah in August, marking a record-breaking month of aliyah. Last week, close to 100 olim arrived...
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September 2, 2026
Touro University’s New Teaching Fellowship Targets Campus Antisemitism Through the Classroom
Last month, Touro University, in association with the National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC), launched a first-of-its-kind teaching fellowship designed to...
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Food
September 1, 2026
Refreshing Wines To Start Afresh
Summer is still in full gear, but the yomim tovim are right around the corner already. It’s hard to believe that Rosh...
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September 1, 2026
Soundtrack Of A Generation: The Top Two (Part 6)
Before we reveal the top two, I have a confession to make. I got one wrong. Not the rankings. I’m...
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Current Issue
Heard In The Bagel Store August 26, 2026
School Daze
Can you imagine yeshiva classes beginning in mid-August back when you were in school? I remember once receiving a notice at home when I was going into sixth grade notifying us that school was going to start either August 29 or 30. But that was about all I was willing to take. I told my […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store August 19, 2026
A Misjudgment And Apology
For the past 26 years, the 5TJT has been highly selective and careful not just about the stories we cover and report on, but the ads we accept and sometimes reject. Last week, I made a mistake in allowing a full-page ad for the sale of cannabis that set off a small furor in our community. And […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store August 12, 2026
Country Roads
Fifty years ago, I knew the Catskills roads so well that I was able to drive them at high speeds at night with my headlamps off. I knew all the twists and turns and curves, and my hands could navigate the car as if by instinct. I was adept at Lake House Road and the […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store August 5, 2026
More Zohran
What I appreciate about Mayor Zohran Mamdani are his crisp, finely tailored white shirts and thin black ties he wears. Beyond his sartorial choices, I’ve rarely encountered a political figure as openly hostile and, shall I say, contemptible as he is. People say all the time that Mamdani bristles with anger toward many groups, but […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store July 29, 2026
Those Summer Days
It might be the most coveted and enjoyable season of the year depending on which part of the world you reside in. Although it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter in locations like Melbourne, Australia and Johannesburg, South Africa, but nothing like your typical New York winter. With Tishah B’Av now behind us, baruch Hashem, […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store July 21, 2026
That Bar Mitzvah
Larry and parents with fruit boat One thing is clear to me—that day will never be forgotten. And the fact that I write about this event at least once a year illustrates to me that you, the reader, might never forget about it either even though you weren’t there. Later on, it would become known […]
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Heard In The Bagel Store July 15, 2026
That Week
This is the week on our annual calendar that is very different from all the other weeks. And it’s always been that way. Perhaps over the decades we’ve changed somewhat, but the week in question—this week—has somehow always managed to maintain its grit and character and essentially been the same regardless of what’s going on […]
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September 2, 2026
More Than 1,100 North American Olim Make Aliyah This August, Marking Record Month of Aliyah
Credit Sivan Shachor More than 1,100 North American olim have made aliyah in August, marking a record-breaking month of aliyah. Last week, close to 100 olim arrived…
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Israel
August 27, 2026
Why Am I back?
I’ve just completed a dynamic few months interning at the Jerusalem Post, penning several published pieces, including two op-eds. I…
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Israel
August 12, 2026
ZAKA Search & Rescue Provides Kavod HaMeit During Busiest 24 Hours Of 5786, Responding From Tragedy To Tragedy
ZAKA Busiest Day ZAKA Search & Rescue volunteers worked virtually nonstop through a succession of tragedies across Israel and internationally…
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Israel
August 11, 2026
Nefesh B’Nefesh Celebrates Its 100,000th Oleh With The President Of Israel
President Isaac Herzog welcomed NBN’s 100,000th North American Oleh to the President’s Residence Photo Credit Yonit Schiller President Isaac Herzog…
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Israel
August 5, 2026
140 New Immigrants From France Arrive In Israel On Special ‘Families Flight’
New Oleh arriving in Israel. Credit: Ministry of Aliyah and Integration A total of 140 new immigrants from France arrived…
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Israel
August 5, 2026
1,700 Young Jews From Around The World Gather In Tel Aviv For Birthright Israel Summer Event
Approximately 1,700 young Jewish adults from around the world attended Birthright Israel’s main summer event Tuesday night at the Tel…
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Israel
August 5, 2026
Amid Israel’s Growing Teacher Shortage, Nefesh B’Nefesh and Israeli Government Launch National Educators Aliyah Program
Co-Founder of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Rabbi Yehoshua Fass; Israel’s Minister of Aliyah and Integration, Ofir Sofer; Co-Founder of Nefesh B’Nefesh, Tony…
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Israel
August 5, 2026
The UK’s Targeted Campaign Against Israeli Families Must Stop
This summer, anti-Zionist politicians in the UK have started another unfair attack against Jewish families and communities in Judea and…
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