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Reporting on other’s positive actions can inspire the reporter to emulate those good deeds.
Repeated behaviors become ingrained, forming habits that ultimately shape our identity. Each small action either reinforces fear-based patterns or builds confidence-based ones, creating what psychologists call behavioral momentum.
A healthy cash flow is the cornerstone of personal finance. It’s imperative you position yourself to earn a livable wage while you are young, by attaining proper schooling or training, before launching your own business or career.
By Irwin Cohen
When the season began, I wouldn't have believed my Detroit Tigers, of the American League Central Division, would start the second half of the season with the best record in the big leagues.
The invitation turned out to be a stroke of genius for all concerned. Effi led the team in producing a real estate app so sleek and user-friendly it went viral, making them all rich beyond their wildest dreams—so rich, in fact, that now he and Avraham were going to spend a year in New York just to set up an East Coast branch.
By Mendi Glik
Music can generate curiosity. Once young people start to listen to this music often, they might start to look for the “original.” And if it sounds almost the same anyway, why not start listening here and there to more goyish music?
Even though my parents tried so hard to be amazing parent, my sister just understood me better.
Viral shame is a digital stampede. Each click tramples someone closer to ruin.
Their inaugural production was a deliberate echo of their past: a reprint of the Lisbon Abudarham, almost identical to the earlier edition save for a few typographic changes and a revised colophon.
By Ben Rothke
Another core trait of his was his ability to change his opinion, which was grounded in his inner strength and confidence.
Strengthen your relationship with Hashem. Daven, connect, and bolster your emunah. Ask Hashem for what you want, ask for the strength and the wisdom to recognize what is right for you, and make sure your connection is real and sure.
The 120 members elected to the Assembly and various invited guests entered the specially-prepared hall, and, when President Weizmann and members of the Cabinet arrived... they were saluted by an honor guard composed of units of the Israeli Army and police force and Hatikvah was played by a combined army-police band.
It seemed totally impossible for him to come out unscathed. And yet he did. He then revealed a very narrow space, just big enough to curl into, safely out of reach of the nails.
A manicure is still not all that important to me. But I understand more about the women for whom it is – both in its presence as a basic element of personal grooming, and in its absence as an announcement to the world that you've just gone to mikvah.
Suddenly, during the meal, my face started itching and burning. My ears were tingling. I looked in the mirror and saw a swollen face staring back. My husband gave me Benadryl, but by the next day, I looked like a horror show.
By Eli Lebowicz
The one Kabbalistic custom we all know is cutting nails over a garbage can or toilet. People on public transit should adopt this custom!
By Anat Coleman
In the end, the corkboards went up, I was relieved that the piles of paper had finally found a home, and the kids now have a new appreciation for the difference between a screw and a nail – and perhaps a bit too much confidence with a hammer in hand.
I smile when I think of him now. I look at the pictures of our past with no regrets, knowing just how fortunate I was to have met this man who adored me and who opened up my world to heights and new experiences, I had never imagined.
While it might appear that unmarried men and women have less complicated lives by virtue of being on their own, and hence have fewer responsibilities and obligations to take up their time and energy, life for them is nonetheless more difficult.
Like social skills, street smarts can be picked up naturally or they can be learned through explicit instruction.
Engaging in aimless activity creates the illusion of progress, allowing us to sidestep decisive action that could expose us to failure.
By Irwin Cohen
I root for all of the Detroit teams and Detroit has been energized by the recent success of the Tigers baseball team and the football Lions. But now basketball has become my third favorite and the Brooklyn Nets have replaced the Detroit Pistons as my favorite hoopsters.
She ignored her gut and backed off, trusting implicitly that the two most important adults in her life wanted only the best for her. Too young, too unsure of herself, she let them convince her they knew better than her what she needed.
Of all the things that we can give our children, self-esteem is the most important.
Despite the challenges of war, Israel’s economy is widely viewed as resilient and fundamentally strong, giving both local and international buyers confidence in the market’s long-term prospects.
The title page itself announces the work’s ambitions: a composition… measured and delved to uncover allegory and parable in the words of Chazal, standing on the shoulders of giants like the Ibn Ezra and the Rambam.
You don’t need a girl who see you and sees short. You need a girl who sees you and understands that you are everything she ever hoped for.
By Marc Gronich
The message is about tolerance, anti-hate, anti-bias, anti-discrimination. It’s not just that we need to be more tolerant, because students understand that but we really get to focus on how I can be more tolerant. What actions can I take?
By Fayge Young
The stories are compact, yet feature writing that is solid, lively, and packed with emotional depth.
Five decades before Herzl’s Der Jundenstaat, Montefiore was arguably the first contemporary Zionist.
So where do we go from here? Don’t ask me. I have difficulty making decisions that affect my own life, let alone those of millions.
By Maayan Zik
Catastrophes can strengthen communal ties and can paradoxically be a catalyst for profound positive change.
We do not respond to catastrophe with questions of why and we do not think of calamities gone by in order to be sad. We respond as best as we can.
Catastrophe disrupts our sense of coherence simultaneously – spiritually, psychologically, neurologically. It fractures how we understand ourselves and the world, overwhelming the nervous system’s need for safety and control.
I had planned a different response to the word catastrophe, but living in Israel now, during the ballistic missile barrages from Iran, that word has taken on a new meaning.
Like the word, our personal understanding of these events can change. What once felt like a meaningless, destructive force can, with time and support, reveal its place in our life's narrative.
Speak up and pay the price or stay silent and enable failure. In such moments what organizations need isn’t just better ideas, they need better messengers. Outsiders with no agenda. Someone who can say what others can’t.
It has been a delight to receive letters throughout these three years from many of you sharing your journey or that of someone you care about.
Stubbornness brings lots of benefits, but what about the negative consequences when raising a child? Is there a way to alleviate them?
Perfection—the henchman of procrastination—is deeply demoralizing. Neither intelligence nor talent grants immunity from its grip.
By Mendi Glik
The reason, by the way, that I didn’t really pay attention to the words all those years is because the melody is just so beautiful that I didn’t really care that I didn’t understand the words.
While it’s important to have articulate advocates representing Israel and the Jewish people, what is the average person’s role in improving the plight of Jews around the world?
Chani was the first in the family to acknowledge the wisdom of renting out their home, and was more willing than the others to bite the bullet and do whatever was necessary to keep them afloat.
Being a people-pleaser is not necessarily a bad thing, but it becomes difficult when you feel you have to avoid conflict at all costs.
For many, particularly high school students, becoming a US Open ballperson is an incredible opportunity. It's not only a chance to be up close to the world's top tennis stars but also a unique summer job experience.
That this newly acquired manuscript – hidden away for centuries – should resurface now is a quiet miracle.
By Irwin Cohen
After Mr. Ploni finished telling his story, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said, Now I know why I smell Gan Eden on you. The neshamos you buried are clinging to you.
If we make people believe they are infallible, they eventually believe they can do no wrong – especially when they do.
Basketball, Goodman asserts, is a vehicle that facilitates empowerment, and he’s confident that basketball will help these children emerge from a pervasive “down” state of mind and life in limbo – disrupted schedules, disrupted sleep, schools closed, extensive time in shelters, explosions and more.
Upon his return to London, Sir Moses was given a hero’s welcome, including a big ceremony and special synagogue services, and, when he met with Queen Victoria to present her with the firman, she honored him by permitting him to add the Lion of Judah holding a banner bearing the word 'Jerusalem' to his coat of arms.
The Torah singled out igniting fire as the paradigm for Shabbos observance, because our attitude toward one another on Shabbos is what will ensure its observance in future generations.
Acknowledge the fire, respond to the flame. If you don’t, well, you may as well be sloshing through life in a waterlogged rowboat. And who wants to live like that?
In our generation, we are witnessing the revealed yad Hashem – victories against all odds, survival amidst growing hate, and moral clarity in chaos. We are witnessing aish min haShamayim.
We must remember that an uncontrolled fire is destructive and terrifying, but a controlled one is a tremendous object of beauty.
There are many parallels between fire and water, most notably their coequal destructive potential and indispensability to human life.
For most of us, this is not pleasant to experience, but we understand that in a health emergency, this care is necessary. But they do not understand.
Your child is always watching you, even if you don’t notice. If you model gratitude, by saying “thank you” to the clerk in the grocery store and the car service driver, you are teaching him the proper way to act.
As AI emerges as the next frontier, Apple’s magic – the sense that it knows what we want before we do – is at risk of growing stale.
Compassion is the foundation of validation. How we speak to ourselves — and how we listen — is just as important as what we say.
Coin-like pieces such as this are classified as tokens. A token is not an official government-issued coin but privately made, and is used as a substitute for money or for other purposes like advertising.
Family accountant Izzy had the idea that the Elmans should move to a smaller place and rent out their house to catch up on their debts.
By Mendi Glik
When Motty returned to Israel from the trip, he continued to sing and play music at events, and sometimes used to sing the Hashgacha Pratit song, but with his own words. Instead of “hashgacha pratit,” he used to sing machshavot tovot, diburim tovim (positive thinking, positive speech).
By Irwin Cohen
There were demographic disabilities within, as well as without, the new state. The Jews were less than three-fifths of the population; the Arabs, more than two-fifths.
Women are generally more sensitive and astute and the fact that you seem happier and more vibrant may be upsetting to your daughters. Perhaps, they were Daddy's girls, so this is hard for them to see.
The procedure itself is covered by medical insurance. This program is for ancillary costs, such as lost income, travel expenses, lodging, food, child and elder care, and medical aides not covered by insurance.
This 1620 edition is among the earliest printings of the complete Sifrei Levushim and was issued just a few years after the author's passing.
In the beginning, perhaps you appreciated the input and research your parents offered, but now things have changed. You are less reliant on their suggestions and opinions and trust yourself to make good dating choices.
Recently, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth caused a stir when, pursuant to President Trump’s long overdue purge of content deemed to promote DEI, he absurdly flagged the name Enola Gay for removal, apparently because the name contained the word “gay” (sigh). In fact, the Enola Gay was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets.
In short, American taxpayers, especially in California, are unwittingly funding activists seeking to overthrow the traditional American order.
One potential challenge is that having real pride in one’s country may take away from one’s pride as a Jew, although it is certainly possible to take pride in two nations simultaneously.
In Israel, patriotism is not just about waving flags or singing anthems – it is about extraordinary acts of bravery and sacrifice.
A Jewish patriot knows: you can kill a Jew, but you cannot kill Judaism. In that very act of sacrifice, Judaism is preserved.
By Rabbanit Dr. Adena Berkowitz
In our own community, we balance sharing shortcomings of past generations with teaching how beautiful our mesorah is, its laws and the path it gives us to connect to Hashem and greater ethical refinement.
In Randle Cotgrave's dictionary, in the early 17th century, the word appears as concern for one's country. But it is the etymology of the term that may reveal to us what our tradition has to say about patriotism.
I'm ecstatic about receiving this award. The Jewish Press owners, the Klass and Greenwald families, have provided me with a wonderful opportunity to have my articles published in such a prestigious national weekly publication, Gronich said.
By Rena Vegh
Unfortunately, there are targets everywhere, to those who want to find one. As brusque as it might seem, you want that target to be somebody else – and so does Chai Defense.
If we can love our lives until the very last moments, there is every reason to celebrate, and less reason for sadness.
Changing your children’s negative behavior will probably require you to change yourself.
Sometimes I imagine being a grandfather and my grandkids calling me on the phone, saying, Saba, can you give me information about the October 7 war? We’re learning about it in school.
Recognizing that having an anxious thought doesn’t mean we must feel anxious allows us to break free from its grip and regain control.
By Mendi Glik
One day, his brother brought him a cassette of Bob Marley. It was the first time he had listened to Bob Marley, and from that moment he got connected to reggae music and started to make his own reggae. It’s kind of as if reggae chose him.
In addition to revealing wasteful spending, a regular review process will also empower the school with the information to go to the market and find the most cost-effective services.
But that’s just it! he said excitedly. If Velvel can’t change his habits in Brooklyn, let him leave Brooklyn! Listen to me! He should rent out his house and live somewhere else for a while!
The Mishna teaches that any dispute not for the sake of Heaven will not endure. A dispute for Heaven asks, ‘What is right?’ A personal dispute asks, ‘Who is right?’
By Marc Gronich
The DSA isn’t going to get into a fight over the design of a Holocaust memorial. The DSA would probably want to put up a memorial to the Nakba...
Maybe it was true! Maybe they only loved me because of all the joy that I give them. Maybe they don't really love me for myself!
This past week, I had the pleasure of acquiring a truly exceptional piece from this rich literary tradition – an Italian manuscript from 1715 that brings together, between two modest covers, some of the most beloved early Purim Torah classics in a beautifully unified volume.
While marriage is holy and beautiful, it is also a huge responsibility. It is a parents’ duty to make sure that their child is physically, emotionally, and mentally prepared for this lifetime commitment.
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