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Dementia Diary – Chapter 110

Features Barbara Diamond

The ride home, would be in the dark of night. The dirt road had no lighting. I was unwilling to return in a car with friends unless one of them was armed. No one thought to bring their guns to the wedding.

Where There’s A Well, There’s A Way

Features Richard Kronenfeld

As we know, the Torah is valid for all time, but societal attitudes toward matrimony have changed dramatically over the past three millennia. Herein lies the tragedy of our times: Marriage is going out of style.

Is Turkey Kosher?

In Print Israel Mizrahi

Halachically, there is typically a requirement that a tradition of kashrut exists for a species, even if such a tradition is upheld by a community on the other side of the world.

Original Historic Documents Regarding The U.N.’S Recognition Of Israel

In Print Saul Jay Singer

The odds against Israel seemed daunting, and many experts believe that it never would have made it through the Ad Hoc Committee (and ultimately, through the General Assembly) but for a passionate two-plus hour speech on May 5, 1949 by Abba Eban, Israel’s designee, to plead its cause.

Jewish Representation In Hollywood Honored At Alice Tully Hall

Features Alan Zeitlin

Josephs said it was hashgacha pratis (divine providence) that she realized there wasn’t a group to fight for Orthodox and Jewish representation and that she was able to do so. She noted that positive Jewish representation is a kiddush Hashem.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Rivka Schwartz

In Print Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz

Torah Judaism makes all sorts of demands on us; of practice and belief, of moral stances that conflict with the culture around us. We have to contend with them, and prepare our children to contend with them.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

In Print Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Rivka. The name of my grandmother. A Holocaust survivor, a partisan, and a rebuilder of worlds.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Solly Hess

In Print Solly Hess

We must be careful not to limit Rivka’s legacy to a few highlights – the switch of the blessings, her zerizus in helping Eliezer – we must see the big picture and understand the foundational role she played in our history.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Anat Coleman

In Print Anat Coleman

I was relieved to study the parsha further as an adult and have the opportunity to re-explore what may have actually occurred to/with Rivka.

Word Prompt – RIVKA – Sharona Halickman

In Print Sharona Margolin Halickman

Rivka didn’t gloat to Yitzchak about the prophecies that she received. She learned from her prophecies and from her life experience about what needed to be done in order to insure proper continuity.

Word Prompt – RIVKA

In Print Jewish Press Staff

Dementia Diary – Chapter 109

Features Barbara Diamond

When we were young, we never believed that we would one day be 70 years of age, much less over 90. It all arrives too quickly. One day we wake up and wonder who the person staring back at us in the bathroom mirror, might be.

The Mir Yeshiva’s Attempted Escape From Japan

In Print Israel Mizrahi

Written by Pinchas Schon, on behalf of the Mirrer Yeshiva Association in New York, and addressed to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, rav in Cincinnati and head of the Agudas Harabonim, it pleads for his assistance in the rescue efforts.

The Lubavitcher Rebbes And The Shabbat Congress

In Print Saul Jay Singer

Presumably with Gelman’s assurance that the Shabbat Congress would be apolitical, the Rebbe did send a lengthy 22 Shevat (February 9), 1942 letter to the Congress, in which he emphasized the dangerous state in which the Jewish people find themselves...

Teach Coalition Gets Out The Vote

Features Sandy Eller

Voting is the best evidence of visibility, and here on Long Island, the presidential and congressional election came and went, but we still have county and town and village offices, all of which are important sources of resources that our community needs every year, explained Kadinsky.

Word Prompt – ORANGES – Kylie Lobell

In Print Kylie Ora Lobell

My husband Daniel and I moved from New York to Los Angeles 12 years ago, and during 10 of those years, we've had an orange tree in our backyard. This is common in LA, as the weather is ideal for growing produce.

Word Prompt – ORANGES – Sari Kopitnikoff

In Print Sari Kopitnikoff

The contest was arranged by a navel orange company. The ask? Send us a photo of your family enjoying our oranges.

Word Prompt – ORANGES – Akiva Kra

In Print Akiva Kra

I wish I could write an easy, 150-word guide on how to peel an orange; A step-by-step process of how to get the first part of the peel off, how to peel any of it without squirting the juice everywhere and getting sticky hands, and explaining how to avoid so many of the other unaddressed challenges in this underappreciated task.

Word Prompt – ORANGES – Naomi Nachman

In Print Naomi Nachman

I always thought it was amazing that oranges are a winter fruit loaded with vitamin c and other antioxidants allowing us to prepare ourselves and defend ourselves from all the viruses that come our way during this time.

Word Prompt – ORANGES – Sarah Pachter

In Print Sarah Pachter

By hashgacha, the same day, I interviewed Nova survivor Ofri Reiner, who shared an incredible story about oranges. For many Nova survivors, oranges have become a symbol of hope.

Word Prompt – ORANGES

In Print Jewish Press Staff

Dementia Diary – Chapter 108

Features Barbara Diamond

Why can I not get it through my thick skull that Hubby eats like a four-year old now? Pizza, cookies, candy, eggrolls, spaghetti, fruit, ice cream, would all suffice for him. But not for me, and do I not matter as well?

A Mysterious Self Proclaimed Jewish Messiah

In Print Israel Mizrahi

The book itself is described by its author as the final revelation of G-d in which all answers to all remaining questions with respect to the Tanach were answered.

The Beilis Affair

In Print Saul Jay Singer

One significant obstacle that the prosecution faced throughout the case was that Beilis was broadly respected, even beloved, by the Gentiles in his neighborhood, some of whom referred to him affectionately as “our Mendel,” and their high regard for him as an honest man was such that many non-Jews either refused to testify against him or even testified in his favor.