A poem for Yom Kippur more

Dear Aviva, My wife is pregnant and I feel like she is a different person! She blames it on the hormones and being pregnant, but it’s really taking a toll on me. According to her, I’m always either saying the wrong things, looking at her the wrong way, or I smell bad. Whatever I say or do seems to just anger her more and it’s frustrating for me, not to mention I don’t want to be around her! I want my wife back! -Sad (soon-to-be) Dad more

More than what he was saying, it was his face that caught my attention. Flicking on the television absent-mindedly as I was getting dressed for a wedding, I came across the middle of a program on what, after a moment, I realized was a story from the Second Lebanon War. more

Calendar for the week of Sept. 28, 2011 more

For the past two years, Woodmere resident Mindy Shachar stood before the class as a teacher at Midreshet Shalhevet, the North Woodmere girls high school. This year, she is out of the class, but busy … more

The arrival of Coffee Bean in New York was accompanied by internet-driven hype, making it seem like it was the greatest kosher thing to happen to New York City. Everywhere you clicked, there were tweets, status updates and blog posts extolling the virtues of this LA-based coffee chain. I absorbed volumes of information about their jalapeño cheddar bagel and was told that their coffee was so good it was the rival to any boutique café with their pompous baristas and handpicked (conflict free) beans. more

The very word itself, teshuvah, brings to mind the very essence of the element and experience of spiritual return. Teshuvah is the experience of returning, not to the good old days, but rather to a new world experience, one that is G-d centered and ordered. more

A sister’s battle with a serious disease and the emphasis on kindness ahead of Rosh Hashana has inspired a Queens resident to design pottery, aimed at raising awareness and funding. “I met a lot of amazing vendors and crafters,” said artist Abbey Wolin, who grew up in Long Beach. “I wanted to put together something amazing, something for Etta.” more

The Talmud in Kiddushin (40b) has a fascinating passage describing the merits process, which is quite applicable to this time of year. more

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. more