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“You Touro graduates are automatically soldiers in [Israel’s] struggle, and we count on you,” Rothstein told the graduates.
By Michelle Katz and Sarah Katz
The lemonana was something else. Never had we seen a green drink look so enticing.
On his marriage, he wrote: "This is what I believe: something of the core, of the essence of this meaningful and life-affirming Judaism will not be absent from our home" (1882).
With the recent kidnapping by the Hamas and the barbaric murder of three children – Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frankel, we believe that the best answer to honor the memory of those murdered is to continue building those very communities – large and small – that our enemies are trying to destroy.
By Beily Paluch
Written entirely through Frayda’s eyes, the reader is drawn by her unassuming personality.
By Ari D. Kahn
Adopting an ancient exegetical approach that is based on midrashic readings of the text, thematic connections that span between various books of the Bible are revealed.
The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten defines a mentch as “someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.”
By Dr. Judith S. Bendheim Guedalia
Certainly today’s communication via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and the like, including the ubiquitous Whatsapp, has reduced the need to talk with people and communicate at length.
These two special women utilized their incredibly painful experience as an opportunity to assist others.
By Pnina Baim
Maybe we don't have to lose that growth and unity that we have achieved, especially with the situation in Eretz Yisrael right now.
By Rhona Lewis
Sleepily, I watched him kissing Mai's chubby thighs.
I have always insisted that everything that happens to anyone or anything is min Shamayim.
My teachers like me and they tell my parents that I am a great girl with good middos.
By Sandy Eller
The chicken and waffle nuggets were fabulous and were like chicken in a dessert form.
“Have you forgotten your dreams?” The Hope Merchant asks a defeated and hopeless Lily when she “happens” upon his shop.
By Yoram Bogacz
The universe was created by God out of nothing; it has not always existed.
By Jeremy Rosen
He combined intellectual achievement with deep spirituality and religious devotion.
He wondered what it was like to live in Israel, to be religious.
By Sandy Eller
The Open Kitchen is so appealing you practically want to eat the pages as you turn them.
In reality, Baruch is one of many children who can be described as twice-exceptional. He is both gifted and struggling with a learning disability.
By Yaffa Ganz
Since there is no "happenstance" in our world, we can only say that something of great import is taking place in the Holy Land.
Alternatively, you can try your absolute hardest to listen whenever she says anything.
As queen of the Maghreb, Aures Damia reigned in peace and prosperity until 702.
Some yeshivish couples do not believe in going out with other couples, but that does not mean that the women cannot have social lives.
That rescued little boy is Israel’s former chief rabbi, Israel Meir Lau, now chief rabbi of Tel Aviv.
An SRO crowd recently celebrated the 22nd Anniversary Breakfast of Congregation Bais Naftoli, honoring Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell and community leader and philanthropist Ira Frankel.
By Irwin Cohen
Zimmer was popular with veteran teammates like Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider – and with a rookie lefthander named Sandy Koufax.
Of course it is disingenuous to tell a person from a non-rabbinic, non-rosh yeshiva home to make an effort.
Israel’s coastline may be short, but there are still some real estate pearls waiting to be realized, offering cheap alternatives for sea front living. All you have to do is go further from the boundaries of Tel-Aviv and the Dan Block.
Explosive children or those with ODD are easily frustrated, demanding and inflexible.
By Sandy Eller
Glob on the sunscreen, break out the darkest chocolate you can find and let the sun shine in!
Synagogue ritual art is also abundant but for various reasons not usually collected.
It is so hurtful to heighten people’s sense of inadequacy and guilt in a matzav that is already horrendous and difficult to bear.
In my experience, modern schools tend to be more open-minded toward other flavors of Judaism.
Green was an American volunteer in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, but something happened In Israel that has haunted him ever since.
In this book, lovingly and admiringly written by Harry's wife Marion, his partner in all his endeavors, the reader is granted a ringside seat to every detail in how this project was conceived and carried to fruition.
By Talia Mishori and Rivka Zahavy
The author begins by distinguishing between what he calls inner/sacred technology and external/profane technology.
It is often quite easy to get into a situation. When the situation gets sticky, it is often really hard to get out.
The event included a hands-on challah baking, a candlestick-making workshop, and discussions of the uniqueness of the Jewish woman.
The program is geared to frum girls who are motivated, excited, and eager to experience a year of learning and growth.
Professional cake decorator Terry Lefkowitz recently hosted an Emunah event in her Miami Beach home.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez worked with Rabbi Pinchas Weberman and the eruv committee to broaden the eruv in South Florida.
By Chaya Rosen
I often found myself holding my hands to my mouth in utter amazement at the power of the writing, sometimes so engrossed I forgot to breathe.
These letters give us the privilege of knowing him in his old age when he is mellow, tempered in his judgments, and sagacious from long experience of dealing with people.
There was a need for the correct people to communicate” with each other in the event of an emergency.
The Amish Village's 12 scenic acres offer a genuine look at the community's lifestyle and how it functions.
One thing I did know, judging from the urgency in her voice, was that she wanted an explanation fast.
The glass shatters beneath my son's foot, and with that I feel as if the shattered pieces of my heart become whole again.
It was Mohammed's Jewish friends, who became the first victims of his Jihad.
I was called to the principal's office and shown a picture my daughter had drawn.
By dvora
We define stress as the feeling we get when there is too much to do and too little time to do it in.
Have you noticed that your child is doing something radically different from his cousins (even if they go to a school a block away from each other)?
By dvora
His students can attest that Rabbi Blau does not waste one extra word as he opens the richness of the text.
Although the book is a light, and not to be taken in anyway as a halachic, treatise, there are some poignant moments and you may just learn a thing or two.
By Sandy Eller
Both mains were clearly prepared with an expert hand and could only be described as heavenly.
The similarities between Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice and the Golem of Prague are stark and unmistakable...
By Sandy Eller
If you are spending the time in the kitchen, make it worth the effort. Make it taste good. Make it look nice.
By Pnina Baim
This summer, why don't we try to do better and cool off without blowing our retirement fund?
Help me and the rest of them Know what I really mean.
He refuses to flinch from our painful history, perhaps finding a kind of solace in the consistency of irrational enmity directed against us.
By Rhona Lewis
How does Ami cope with being drawn into the maelstrom of pain that victims of terror live with?
Make no mistake: in the wrong hands cars are weapons of mass destruction.
"Where was this guy when I was dating?"
Since I did not know much about divorce in those years, I just assumed that this was the "norm." I learned later on how exceptional this family really was.
“If you have Asperger’s Syndrome, you are really good in your brain and your brain is wired a different way, so you are really good at drawing or school. But your social level is not high.”
By Suri Brand
Everyone involved had to be physically present in one office to get a book published.
Witnessed by Theodore Herzl, who was a journalist for a Viennese newspaper covering the trial, the cause célèbre became the spark that eventually caused the rise of the State of Israel in modern times.
When I give this book, the parents look at the gold Caldecott Medal on the front cover and smile, but look up quizzically – a book for a newborn?
Abusive men are usually on their best behavior before marriage. But they do provide clues.
The Lion's Gate takes us from the dawn of the state in 1948, through intervening battles, to the lead-up to June 1967, and finally through the harrowing six days of fighting.
By dvora
For Halevi, however, the soldiers of the 55th were not only at the forefront of national triumph, but also became the flesh and blood manifestation of his love for the country and his desire to make the Land of Israel his home.
This book is more than just a biography of one of the leading figures in the Jewish world of the past century.
By Jason Maoz
These are not necessarily the best all-around biographies or studies of the individual presidents listed (though some rank right up there), but the strongest in terms of exploring presidential attitudes and policies toward Israel.
By JTA
In response to the kidnapping of three boys last week, some Israelis have prayed. Some have voiced support on social media. And some have done what they do best: they made an app. Prompted by the kidnapping and set to launch in the near future, the SOS Israel app will allow anyone in Israel facing an emergency to trigger […]
We all have a little voice inside our heads that sends a warning.
The ceremony was capped off with an eloquent speech delivered by class valedictorian, National Merit Scholar and student body president Ethan Danial.
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton Synagogue threw out the first ball.
Many thanks for a wonderful year to Morahs Yittie, Tali, Michelle and Chani.
He witnessed and endured unspeakable atrocities in the Shoah and yet was a positive and loving soul.
Creating communities without walls has been a secret to Chabad’s success.
By dvora
Never pushing any ideology, Ayalon stresses a few key thoughts – particularly that there is a division of responsibilities between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora.
Called Therap, the software is a leader in intellectual and developmental disabilities health recordkeeping through electronic means.
Father’s Day comes every year. How many drills can you get him?
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