Tryouts this Sunday for competitive team
By Malka Eisenberg
Issue of October 16 2009/ 29 Tishrei 5770
Black Belt Alex Sternberg is coming to the Jewish Community Center of the Greater …
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10/13/09
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Issue of January 22, 2010/ 7 Shvat 5770
Dear That’s Life,
About a year ago, I was talking to the husband of someone I know, but he did not realize I was the Miriam Wallach who wrote for …
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1/20/10
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I'm thinking
by Micah Halpern
Issue of May 7, 2010/ 23 Iyar 5770 Ahmadinejad is not a lunatic. He is not crazy. He is not insane. He is not a madman driven by hatred.
Ahmadinejad is a …
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5/5/10
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The Jewish Star is proud to introduce this exclusive weekly feature by a renowned and respected educator Issue of August 27, 2010/ 17 Elul, 5770
By Rabbi Yakov Horowitz
One by one, people …
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8/25/10
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The room is shaking, but it's shaking in the best kind of way. I am experiencing the way Shabbos ends at an NCSY Shabbaton - and never have I seen the Shabbos Malka receive a more royal sendoff.
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By Yaakov Gold
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6/1/11
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When Ethel Bauer Katz, a Holocaust survivor and author of “Our Tomorrows Never Came,” told audience members at Nassau Community College that she was the only one to survive out of her family of seven, the room fell silent.
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By Ann E. Friedman
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9/28/11
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In 1916, in Portsmouth, Virginia, a little boy named Max was born.
In two years his family, the Gifters, moved to Baltimore and when little Max was old enough he was sent to receive a full public school education. What was to follow in Max’s, now Mordechai’s, life was the legacy of one of America’s first native born sages who was to help redefine the status of Jewish religious learning both here in the United States and the world.
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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1/19/12
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Perhaps the most popular tractate of the Talmud among our people is the Mishnah Avot.
What is unique to this particular book of the Talmud is that, unlike the other tractates, this one is a book of ethics not law.
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/3/12
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