With a batting average of .415, on base percent of .642 and an ERA of 3.2, you’d say this player is heading for the big leagues. He is, but he’s also heading to 4th grade…at HALB. At just 4’8” Jacob Steinmetz, 9, of Woodmere, has played baseball locally since he was in kindergarten.
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By Karen C. Green
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8/23/12
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Comments by two friends of mine concerning the link between the recently deceased former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and the Jewish people prompts this week’s review; this time, a review of essays, not of books.
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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4/18/13
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This week’s portion, Re’eh, begins with Moshe’s dramatic presentation of the blessings and the curses, which seem at first glance to be all about the rewards and punishments that await us when we enter the land of Israel, just across the Jordan river:
“Re’eh anochi noten lifneichem hayom brachah u’klalah…“See, I present before you today a blessing and a curse.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/1/13
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In the Torah, the city Beer Sheva appears thus named only one time (26:33). Otherwise it is always called Beer Shava. Seforno notes the difference between the vowelization of the two names of the city, while Ibn Ezra offers that when it is called Beer Sheva it might be for two reasons (based on an oath and the number seven) or, perhaps, it is a different (though similarly named) city.
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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12/4/13
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The HAFTR community turned out last motzei Shabbat to celebrate the school’s four educational leaders.
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2/26/14
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Electoral upsets happen every so often in Nassau County. There was Republican Dan Frisa beating his party’s incumbent, David Levy, in 1994. Like Levy, Frisa became a one-term congressman after a challenger, Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, unseated him in 1996.
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By Brian Racow, Nassau Herald
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6/11/14
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Temple University has become the latest focal point for groups concerned about the spreading wave of campus antisemitism and academic-based Holocaust minimizing.
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By Edwin Black
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9/4/14
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How does the attack in Kehilat Bnei Torah in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood affect the Jewish state’s roughly 11,000 other synagogues, which in many areas can be found on virtually …
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By Deborah Fineblum Schabb, JNS.org
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11/26/14
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Last night, as I have done since I was a kid, I viewed the Academy Awards ceremony on TV.
The Awards show, which first took place in 1929 in front of 250 people at the Hollywood Roosevelt …
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By Judy Joszef
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2/25/15
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Nearly 700 ninth and 10th grade students from 25 area schools who are enrolled in the CIJE-Tech High School Engineering program participated in their Young Engineers conference at the Hebrew Academy …
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By Vanessa Parker
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5/21/15
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