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Fog/Mist 6 candles for 6 million
Six yahrzeit candles were lit at the Greater Five Towns Community Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 11 — one candle for each of the six million Jews who were murdered in the …
celebration
Lieberman keynotes 5 Towns Yom Ha’atzamut
Formet Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman delivered the keynote address at the Five Towns communal Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzamut program on Wednesday night, April 18, …
happy birthday
Schools cheer Israel at 70
Students at Jewish schools with a Zionist orientation unfurled the blue-and-white throughout Long Island last Thursday, April 19, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the birth of the modern state of …
shuls
New rabbi for Lido Beach
The Lido Beach Synagogue, on the east end of the Long Beach barrier island, will officially welcome its new spiritual leader, Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen, and his wife Shira and their children (pictured) …
israel
Brooklyn couple building fire station in Maalot
A Brooklyn Heights couple continued their ongoing commitment to assisting Israel’s fire and rescure operations on Monday, laying a timecapsule in a new fire station they are helping to finance …
analysis
What does Portman’s snub really mean?
Natalie Portman’s statement explaining why she declined to attend an award ceremony in Israel in her honor was a pointed rebuke, and of a particular individual. …
remembered
Montreal pilgrimage in Leonard Cohen footsteps
MONTREAL — Just inside the gate of the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue off Boulevard du Mont Royal, a gravestone bears an unusual Star of David, the sharp angles of its two opposing triangles …
kosher kitchen
As Lag B’Omer nears, let’s talk about eggplant
The eggplant — a beautiful berry — is so popular that its iconic color is instantly recognizable far beyond the food, in paint and fabric and more. My eyeglasses are eggplant as is a …
opinion
How Shoah education distances Jews from Israel
Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed in Israel just a week before Independence Day, and for Israelis, those days are thematically as well as temporally connected …
on campus
Here’s what it’s like to support Israel at NYU
Though it was raining, students still gathered to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day at New York University’s downtown Manhattan campus. Passers-by mostly rushed by as organizers blasted …
kosher kitchen
Taking stock as we resume our life of chometz
For Passover, we thoroughly cleaned out our cabinets and refrigerators. Now, as we finish putting back all the chametz foods, we can look at what we have and take stock of our eating habits. Does …
This week in Torah
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The community and holiness
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Holiness in shul? Thoughts for Aharei Mot-Kedoshim
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If you’re obsessing over sefirah, consider this: There are more important mitzvot
Did you count sefirah last night? Did you make it up this morning? Are you still counting with a bracha? Do you have an app reminding you to count the Omer? Do you have a WhatsApp group that helps …
Kosher Bookworm
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Recalling Rav Pelcovitz of Far Rock’s White Shul
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Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s ‘Keys to the Palace’
Rabbi Hayyim Angel is one of my favorite authors on the deeper meaning of Tanakh text and commentary. In this week’s column, Rabbi Yaakov Beasley, Tanakh coordinator at Yeshivat Lev haTorah who …
Who's in the Kitchen
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Plight of a Dashing Judy and her misplaced fob
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Another Pesach, another tale of Jerry on the run
Since I began writing this column in December 2011, I’ve been asked over and over, “Are all the stories about your husband Jerry true?” “It’s not possible that he …
Kosher Kitchen
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Taking stock as we resume our life of chometz
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Beautiful spring arrives, with healthy delights
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As Lag B’Omer nears, let’s talk about eggplant
The eggplant — a beautiful berry — is so popular that its iconic color is instantly recognizable far beyond the food, in paint and fabric and more. My eyeglasses are eggplant as is a …
View from Central Park
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Israel’s Rav Rontzki, a tzaddik who touched many
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On her 70th birthday, celebrating Israel from afar
Not too far off, I hope to live the words of hashiveini v’ashuva el ha-aretz ha-tova, a phrase from Naomi Shemer’s song, “Al Kol Eleh,” that I think of often. “Bring me …
Viewpoint
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Warsaw Ghetto: Epitome of rightful resistance
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Considering Russia and Israel, seven decades on
Amid all the diplomatic maneuverings in the months that led up to the creation of the State of Israel 70 years ago, none are more curious than those undertaken by the Soviet Union. It’s fair …
Politics to Go
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It had nothing to do with chemical weapons
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Iran at home in Syria: Drone was a flying bomb
A report last Friday added context and background to recent Israeli actions in Syria. The report, by the IDF, dealt with an incident in February, when Israel shot down an Iranian drone. That …
women in shul
Full text of new OU statement on halachically valid roles for women in synagogue leadership
NEWS: The Orthodox Union, after a year of discussions with various stakeholders and in the face of some opposition, has established parameters for a three-year period during which the umbrella body …
united and divided
What does it mean to be Modern Orthodox?
While the vast majority of Modern Orthodox Jews believe in G-d, send their kids to Jewish day schools, and make incomes well above the national average, they are less than unanimous in their views on whether women should be rabbis or synagogue presidents,