On Mother’s Day, the New York Times Magazine published a 10,000-word profile of Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes. The piece contains many startling revelations including (as Rhodes …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/10/16
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MOMMY AND ME SHABBAT EDITION led by Morah Anat. Join other moms and bond with your child while exploring their Jewish world through music, movement, and play. No …
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The Jewish Star
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5/10/16
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For Holocaust survivor Israel Starck, the geographic chasm between Auschwitz and Cedarhurst was experienced last week in his heartfelt Yom HaShoah address to the middle school students at the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/10/16
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It’s interesting the way some companies react to anti-Semitism. On one hand, they wouldn’t touch someone like David Duke with a ten-foot pole, but when it comes to an anti-Semite and …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/10/16
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Freshman, sophomores and juniors from the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach participated in the school’s annual trip day in advance of Pesach. …
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5/4/16
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Rabbi Captain Travis and the women of Kosher Troops visited with the middle school of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway to describe the organization’s chesed.
Jewish members …
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5/4/16
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Although Judy stayed home for Pesach, she took a few “travel days” off from her column, so we’re reprinting her post-Pesach dispatch from 2012.
The last of the Pesach dishes, …
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By Judy Joszef
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5/4/16
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The prohibition of imbibing blood is one of the well-known mitzvot found in our parasha (Vayikra 17:10-11). In it we find the unusual expression, v’natati panai, which is explained by both …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/4/16
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G-d instructs Moshe to tell the people about the importance of observing His statutes and laws: “Keep My decrees and laws that a person can do — and live with them. For I am …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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5/4/16
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There are a lot of unknowns with Zika, but there’s no reason to be scared.
That was the message of a lecture about the mosquito-borne virus at South Nassau Communities Hospital on Monday, …
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By Rebecca Melnitsky
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5/4/16
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