יום שבת, ט״ו תשרי תשפ״זSaturday, September 26, 2026
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It appears through your letter that you may be overly critical of your loved ones. Perhaps you are distancing them as your daughter and friend had said.
It’s a sacred Jewish custom to study on the nights of Shavuot and Hoshana Rabba; to read from Torah, Nevi'im, Mishnah and Talmud, Aggadah and Kabbalistic books…
Turns out, there’s actually quite a lot that you can do about overthinking.
By Irwin Cohen
The host never mentioned that when Aaron would pass Ruth's mark, he would have many more at-bats than Ruth had. I decided to call in and state the facts.
Our brain is scared of greatness. Let's get over it
Perhaps girls are conditioned to get married early and to create a family and a home so they present themselves with more enthusiasm and care.
To be honest, I have never met a cheesecake I didn’t like, but over the last few years, I have replaced the vanilla in my cheesecake with bourbon, with fantastic results. It’s a subtle change, but a good one! — Sandy Eller, Monsey, NY
If you enjoy watching movies, but dislike the racy scenes, bloodshed, and foul language, movie-filtering services might be worth considering.
Significant discontent was generated regarding the dominant presence of the Histadrut’s red/socialist flags rather than the traditional blue and white Jewish flag with the Magen David.
Whether you or your child is suffering from an anxiety disorder or just plain old anxiety, there are still many things you can do in order to help control the anxiety.
By Marc Gronich
There is legislation on the books that every child, age 8 years and up, should get some type of Holocaust education in school, Kaplan noted. We don’t know how it’s working.
When Algeria declared its independence from France, the situation for Jews in the country became dangerous almost immediately.
It would be a good idea to seek professional help. If your husband refuses to go for help, it would still be helpful for you to seek your own professional help to assist you in navigating your husband’s anger.
Is he helping his family financially through a difficult time and has been forced to be careful?
Rubinger says that he shot his photos with tears streaming down his cheeks and watched as hardened paratroopers all around him wept.
The booklet includes original, exciting recipes that are perfectly suited for Yom Tov, including appetizers, main courses, and desserts.
The shidduch process has many challenges both for individuals and for communities as well.
By Roni
In the early 1990s, he was on staff at Camp Agudah. One of his responsibilities was arranging and overseeing the adult harmony group in the camp’s annual Cantata play. Then he started writing original songs for the cantatas.
The Vilna Gaon is known to have valued all fields of knowledge and educated himself in them as tools to understand the Torah.
Take time now to heal. If that is a week, a month, or more. Be kind to yourself and take care of yourself as you process this experience.
Congratulations! You have decided to start a business and feel pumped, but you realized that marketing yourself is a big role in getting clients.
This is a great coding and robotics toy for budding STEM enthusiasts. The kit comes with two motors and one sensor and the possibility to build up to six pre-designed robots.
It was quite remarkable. Lotz was not only invited to tour top-secret bases near the Suez Canal, but he was also granted access to airports where the Egyptians stationed their MIG fighter aircraft, where he took close range photographs of the pilots posing proudly near their planes.
Emotional intelligence therefore grounds children as people who can interact positively with others and continue to develop even as the playing field gets more difficult and challenging. This extends to shidduchim as well.
I’m sure we can all agree that asking for a picture doesn’t stem from a deep desire to connect emotionally with someone prior to a date.
By Irwin Cohen
I saw pictures of him in the sports section of the newspaper delivered to our house, and I devoured any story and box score with his name.
It is important to validate your daughter’s feelings and tell her that this behavior was unacceptable.
These days, we have a particular craving for control, and tend to worry about everything!
The entire process takes just minutes, and its UV-C light and ultrasonic wave technology kills 99.9 percent of bacteria, germs, and mites.
At the time of the quartet’s composition, Beethoven had become interested in the music of George Handel’s Saul (1738), which led him to study early Hebrew music.
By Baruch Lytle
If teens are attacking people, today it’s our Jewish brothers and sisters and tomorrow it could be the rest of us.
By Baruch Lytle
There are other Jewish candidates (in the running for District 29), but they are progressive and pro-defunding the police.
Of course, everyone is reading and writing about productivity today in a world that doesn’t sleep, and perhaps Duhigg’s book is an oversimplification of our daily race against the clock.
The teacher was so distraught and horrified, both by the murder and his undeniable failure to get through to his students, that he packed up and left.
The Yaavetz was unusual for a man of his stature, not holding a rabbinical position but rather supporting himself by publishing books.
Once he understood the importance of respecting authority, he began to listen more appropriately to his Rebbeim, teachers, and the Menahel, understanding that they ultimately are seeking to help him succeed in life.
I did some extensive research on where other examples of your Chanukah menorah may be found, and lo and behold, I located two other examples.
I asked the guy for the recipe, and he started telling me: "First, you have to dance with the fish, then say a little Tehillim, then go to the mikveh, and then learn Likutei Moharan with the fish."
Leading however, with the notion that you are dating below your standards, or beneath your “criteria” is certainly something that your dates would feel.
Trying to prove that an accident is the other driver’s fault is difficult and frustrating. Dash cams provide the necessary proof, thus saving money, time, and heartache.
The historic vote was followed with unmatched excitement by Jews around the world, and news of the vote brought tens of thousands of people out onto the streets to dance and celebrate the great moment.
A surprised friend remarked, “I didn’t know your mother was a shadchan.” She wasn’t. She just instinctively helped everyone she could in the way it was most needed – and sometimes that was a shidduch.
The days of Sefirat HaOmer are divided into sections of our attributes. We are meant to fix a different aspect of our middot as we count each day.
By Rabbinical Alliance of America
America is a country built on laws that are deeply rooted in notions of equal protection and due process, even if too many times in history these rights have been overlooked.
By Met Council
We at Met Council work tirelessly to provide for the ever-increasing number of New Yorkers living in food insecurity because of Covid, but we cannot do it alone.
Children will often get caught up in a power struggle: you pushing and them resisting. Your anxiety about the consequences of their actions will only teach them either how to appease you or resist you.
Now that you are able to date again, you jumped in with enthusiasm, only to be reminded of your dissatisfying past experiences.
A widespread custom at the time among Syrian Jews was to have a pizmon written and composed in honor of major life-style occasions such as bar mitzvahs and wedding celebrations.
Some people may think it is cruel to not marry a boy because of their family background, but be forewarned: even if he is remorseful about the way he treats his mother, he will most certainly repeat it with you.
Correspondence between two famous personalities are particularly valued by collectors, particularly when it establishes a heretofore unknown connection between the individuals involved.
My father sought out truth and insisted on telling the truth even at the cost of lost accounts. He always did the right thing even if it was not popular.
By dvora
Once again every effort was made to ensure the dignity of recipients, with deliveries made in a discreet manner, no different in appearance from a regular supermarket drop-off.
Inner refinement is in our control, and tending to it is the most effective way to change a healthy relationship.
By Irwin Cohen
Gone are the days of the big games between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox as the BoSox are more in a rebuilding phase and have their best pitcher, Chris Sale, out for the season because of surgery.
The author writes in his introduction that he believes Sephardic Jews need to view themselves as Levantines, no longer as Sephardim, and adapt and modernize themselves to continue to be competitive in business.
Szyk’s sui generis work is notable for its rejection of contemporary avant garde artistic styles in favor of medieval painting, particularly as expressed in illuminated renaissance manuscripts.
The author of the book Ronit Treatman, the daughter of Israeli diplomats who speaks several languages and lives in Philadelphia, was inspired to write the book after she became involved with the Bnei Anousim, the tens of millions of people around the world descended from forcibly converted Spanish and Portuguese Jews through the organization Reconectar.
It’s hard for people to understand children can have a learning disability that affects only writing. Most people assume if you have no trouble reading, then writing should be a cinch.
Remarkably, I just came across a fascinating remnant of the ghetto’s defiant Jewish spirit this week: a Russian-Yiddish Dictionary.
It can certainly be uncomfortable to mingle and connect with other guests solely to bolster and expand your shidduch reputation and reach.
Positive thinking has wonderful effects on your mind as well as your body. It lowers stress levels, which in turn affects every part of your being.
The military governor of Jerusalem decided to allocate the scant matzah supplies to the city’s civilians, but Rav Goren could not stand the very idea that the first Jewish soldiers to fight for Jerusalem in two millennia would be forced to eat chametz on Pesach.
What if your child is not simply a late bloomer? What if he needs early intervention in order to help him attain language?
By Marc Gronich
This year Kassar, 62, is trying to advance legislation to make it easier for voters to influence policy and legislation without having to run for office.
Shevile Olam Chadash gives us insight into the widespread longing for the New World felt by the oppressed Jews in Eastern Europe...
I always say that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. If we can all learn how to parent effectively, then this world would be a better place.
You wonder how to convince girls that you are in fact a good bet, without the promise of a glitzy future.
Experts generally support coronavirus vaccination programs, but Daniel said not all scientists do and “the idea of science being settled is a fallacy of what science actually stands for.”
I love them all and they are all winners, but if you ask me for my favorite, I will have to go with our simple elastic headbands. They are so simple, yet different, and are flying off the shelves.
Pursuant to another corporate legend, when Berlitz was forced to take a leave of absence due to exhaustion, he put Joly in charge of the language classes only to discover to his chagrin that his trusted assistant did not speak a word of English.
There are dissenting opinions by health experts globally, especially now, a year later, but it’s not that simple to uproot yourself and go to a less hysterical jurisdiction.
If you are experiencing crippling anxiety, there are four different approaches that you can take in order to make your life more manageable and enjoyable.
Most medical doctors treat OCD with medication to calm the amygdala. She was informed by her doctor that OCD could not be cured, but with medication it could be maintained. The fact remains that the medication's side effects were worse than the OCD itself.
This printing is remarkable because of the many illustrations and diagrams depicting Kabbalistic ideas.
By Irwin Cohen
While I don't remember him playing in a game I attended, I can recall opening up packs of baseball cards and getting more Porters than I wanted.
Each year, he explodes in anger at me and our children for no good reason, other than that he is physically and mentally exhausted and drained.
You want to move forward, but worry that your varying views may cause friction in the future. You want to make it work, and want to know how that can be done.
Hashem orchestrates every detail of His world; He has an intricate, puzzle-like plan.
We are the biggest yarn dealers in New York; we carry 3,000 square feet of yarn and crochet.
Ben-Gurion was very cold – many argue, with some justification, that he was actually extremely opposed – to Torah-true Judaism.
We all start life the same way – as babies completely dependent on others for even our most basic needs... The older we become, however, the more control we gain. We learn to communicate, move, and interact with others.
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