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South Florida

Hebrew Academy 3rd Grade Presents Thanksgiving Play

By Shelley Benveniste

The talented students entertained an auditorium filled with fellow students, parents, grandparents, family, and friends.

Jewish / NY / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Media

Dershowitz to Play Trump in Hillary's Debate Prep

By JNi.Media

Mark Green told WNYC the Democratic candidate should have a team of one overall manager, one surrogate, and a team of ten advisers who remind her to smile a lot.

IDF & Security / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Intifada

With 5 Life Sentences for 5 Murders Marwan Barghouti Prepares to Play Nelson Mandela

By JNi.Media

At this point, outside the Gaza Strip, only Marwan Barghouti has the street cred and the political wherewithal to rule the PA, which should be a source of concern to Israel.

Op-Eds

Aging Rocker’s Failed Anti-Israel Crusade

By Ben Cohen

Sarcasm aside, this is anti-Semitism of the ugliest, most primitive kind.

News Briefs

US State Dept. Rejects Recent Israeli Announcements on Settlements

By Jewish Press News Desk

Mark C. Toner, DOS Deputy Spokesperson, on Monday night released this statement: The United States opposes all unilateral actions, including West Bank settlement activity and housing construction in East Jerusalem, as they complicate efforts to resume direct, bilateral negotiations, and risk prejudging the outcome of those negotiations. This includes building in the E-1 area as this area […]

Lessons In Emunah

Our Friend, Adversity

By dvora

It is painfully difficult to start and end the hectic day seeing my daughter wander, almost lifelessly, from room to room and sibling to sibling with no desire to venture out into the scary world of society. With her bundle of strengths and weaknesses, and despite my countless pep talks, our 27-year-old daughter chooses to spend most of her time in the comfort and safety of our home. That is until recently, when terrible loneliness finally pushed her out the door.

Book Reviews

Title: Not My Kind? I Don't Mind!

By Shmuel Holczer

When the Fine family (not related to the Feiners from Alone in Africa!) move into a new neighborhood, the twin siblings named Nesanel (again, not related to Nesanel Feiner) and Nechama set out on a very important mission – finding friends to rescue them from their boredom.

Potpourri

Talking to Myself

By Mordechai Schmutter

Ever since I started this question-and-answer column, people have been coming over and asking me questions. Baruch Hashem, right?

Felafel on Rye

50 Reasons to Make Aliyah

By Tzvi Fishman

A few readers have written me lately, saying that my blogs are too hard-hitting, and that I would have better results with honey than with smashing people over the head with a sledgehammer. I am not totally convinced

Teens and Twenties

Reality Threat

By S. Goldfarb

The following is a partial list of things I always knew I would never be good at: 1) Math 2) Creative writing 3) Jewish outreach 4) Playing with children

Potpourri / Interviews and Profiles

Writer’s Profile: An Interview With Erica Lyons

By Karen Greenberg

I grew up in Edison, New Jersey and lived in the same house until I left for college. My parent had moved in several years before I was born. I had the same rabbi for my baby naming, my bat mitzvah and my wedding (this was a first for him). My husband and I even brought our daughter back to my old ­synagogue for her naming.

Potpourri

Love And Fear…Of Food

By Penina Scheiner

Some of us climb a scale each day in terror and dread. Some of us alight a scale, with our hearts thumping and throats tightening. We may know how to jump off and on, or gyrate this way or that to create a different number. And we will stare at that all important number – which could very well dictate our mood for the rest of the day. We believe the final number to be the true judge of our worth – of how well we are doing. And we are sorry that the scale could not be fooled.

News Briefs / Europe

New York Jewish Doctor Co-Recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

By JTA

Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Jewish physician and path-breaking biochemist from New York, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Parenting Our Children

Which Are You?

By Rifka Schonfeld

I watched them tear a building down; A gang of men in a busy town. With a mighty heave and a lusty yell, They swung a boom and a side wall fell. I said to the foreman, "Are these men skilled As the men you'd hire if you had to build?" He gave me a […]

Op-Eds

What Bill Belichick and the Patriots Can Teach Us about the Days of Awe

By Joey Aron, Esq.

Let us begin our year on the right foot towards another Super Bowl season.

Rubin Reports

Democrat Convention Plan Shows Obama will Lose the Election

By Barry Rubin

The information released about the Democratic convention seems to show it is designed to prove how radical the party is, to play to the most limited possible sector of the population.

News Briefs

White Sox Jewish Third Baseman Will Play for Israel at World Baseball Classic

By JTA

Chicago White Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said he will play for Israel at the World Baseball Classic. Youkilis told Israel Sports Radio Wednesday that he would play for Team Israel if he is healthy. This season, the three-time All Star is hitting .241 with 15 home runs and 47 runs batted in. He has […]

Interviews and Profiles

Through The Ages In Jewish Song: Itzhak Perlman on His New CD Collaboration with Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot

By Naomi Klass Mauer

Internationally renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman and acclaimed Chazzan Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, chief cantor at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, have collaborated on a forthcoming CD titled “Eternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul.” The Jewish Press recently interviewed Perlman at his summer home in the Hamptons.

Teens and Twenties

Writer Profile: Elke Weiss

By Karen Greenberg

Karen Greenberg: Where did you grow up and where do you live now? Elke Weiss: I grew up in Manhattan Beach, in Brooklyn. I now live in downtown Manhattan by the Hudson River. I really like living by the water. What do you do for a living? I am finishing a Masters in Urban Affairs […]

A Soldier's Mother

I Surrender…

By A Soldier's Mother

For weeks now, I've been posting and writing about the International Olympic Committee's pathetic, disgusting and disturbing decision not to grant one moment, sixty seconds, of silence in memory of the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich - not once...in forty years. And today, I read an article about the heightened security concerns.

Judaism

Let's Connect…Diversely

By Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein

As a frequent traveler abroad, I rarely see a community where everyone is alike. Though the comfort of "living with your own" is understandable, there is much to be said for a Jewish community in which Streimlach walk on the same sidewalk with Kippot Serugot, and girls wearing heavy stockings walk to shul on Shabbat together with those wearing sandals without any socks.

Teens and Twenties

Take Back The Calendar

By Alti Bukalov

How do I take back the calendar full of mistakes looking eerily back at me? How do I unsay those words? How do I un-breathe those sounds and play it all back and somehow delete it?

A Soldier's Mother

A Man's Man

By A Soldier's Mother

The thing about S. was that he pushed his soldiers to find the best in themselves and he did it in a way that inspired them to want to reach down and find more. He inspired Shmulik with his dedication and his love of Israel. This is the land he defends and he treats his soldiers as his sons.

Jewish / News Briefs / Media

Andy Statman: Klezmer Is Finished

By Michael Orbach

Andy Statman says the time of Klezmer has passed. Having just received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship in June for his work in bluegrass and Klezmer music, Statman admits Klezmer used to be his substitute for Jewish observance. Now that he is an Orthodox Jew, he no longer feels the need to play the music.

Parenting Our Children

Let Kids Be Kids

By Dr. Yael Respler

Dear Dr. Yael: I now see why so many children are insecure. I have been a day-care provider for many years. When parents initially consider day care they want a small group so their children will not be neglected. But problems arise when their children turn two, and nursery or playgroup becomes an option. All of a sudden a group of 20-25 children is not a problem because it is much cheaper. I refer to two-two and a half year olds, whose parents feel that they need to exclusively be with children their own age.

Sports

Playoffs: Lakewood Heimishe Bake Shoppe, Segwayz advance

By Monty Wayland

League observers have pegged Rimon as the championship favorite, after their recent 23-2 landslide win over Bagelsbergs clinched the top seed, and gave them a perfect undefeated record in the regular season.

Arts / Israel / Global

Two Irish Bands Succumb to Cultural Terrorism

By Malkah Fleisher

Two Irish bands scheduled to play highly-publicized concerts in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Nahalal in June have cancelled, citing an overwhelming international uproar over their refusal to join the boycott against relations with Israel. Dervish and Fullset both published apologies on their Facebook pages, explaining that a mutual friend of theirs, Israeli musician Avshalom Farjun, […]

Sports / Jewish

Jewish NFL Lineman Heads to Cleveland

By Malkah Fleisher

For the Jewish community in Ohio, the newest Cleveland Browns lineman is also a landsman. Mitchell Schwartz will arrive in Cleveland on Thursday, May 10 for the Cleveland Browns’ rookie minicamp, having been chosen as the 37th pick in last week’s NFL Draft. In an interview with Cleveland Jewish News, the 22 year-old Brown said […]

Moshe Feiglin

Israel’s Little Red Riding Hood

By Moshe Feiglin

“Hey, Little Red Riding Hood, what is that dome on your head?” “Grandma-tech knitted it for me out of steel wool,” Little Red Riding Hood proudly answered. “Nice, isn’t it?” “Sure, it’s nice,” answered the wolf, licking his lips. “It fits you very well. But why is it made out of steel wool?”

Parenting Our Children

Twice Exceptional: Smart Kids With Learning Disabilities

By Rifka Schonfeld

It was Yehudah’s third birthday party. Instead of calmly interacting with his guests, he either ignored them or bossed them around with his limited vocabulary of ten words. He ran around nonstop and elbowed every person in his path. Then, his mother, Shoshana, decided he needed some time to himself so she asked him to play quietly in the den for a few minutes.

News Briefs

Director Won't Release 'Love Song of Saul Alinsky' Tape with Obama's 'Share'

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to breitbart.com, Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky" in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play, and she won’t release it. “There is only one archive tape of the play and I have it,” Dickler […]

News Briefs

Congrats! Texas Jewish School Gets to Play Ball Friday Afternoon, Observe Shabbat

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish high school, was expecting to have to forfeit their game against the Covenant School of Dallas, which was scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday. The school appealed to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (Tapps), organizers of the event, but the association initially said it was […]

Jewish / US

Boxed Out: No Exceptions for Orthodox School in Texas Scheduled to Play Bball on Shabbat

By Rafi Harkham

The Robert M. Beren Academy has reached the semifinals of its league play, but players and coaches are adamant that they won't play the game, which is scheduled for Friday night. The Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools was unmoved by the school's appeal and has replaced Beren with the team it had vanquished to reach the semifinals.

News Briefs

Iran Embarks on Bible-Burning Campaign

By Jewish Press News Desk

According to the Iranian Christian news organization Mohabat News, Iranian authorities began to systematically seize and destroy Bibles after a Shiite cleric issued an urgent warning about the spread of Christianity. Mohabat reported that authorities in northwestern Iran have so far seized 6,500 Bibles. A state official said of the seizure: "All religions are strengthening […]

Lessons In Emunah

A Shampoo Gemach

By N. Schechter

I thank Hashem that my daughters play “shampoo gemach", and I take pride in our community, which stresses gemachs and acts of gemilas chesed. Families try to find ways to help others, and people go out of their way to search for opportunities to practice kindness.

News Briefs

Prominent Egyptian Comedian Convicted of 'Defaming Islam'

By Jewish Press Staff

Adel Imam was sentenced to three months for his roles in a play and a movie.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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