From the other side of the bench by David Seidemann Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz 5770 Last week I referenced the ancient Canaanites and the Amalakites and how they battled the … more

Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 Brother, can you spare a quarter? My four-year-old son goes to get a haircut willingly because he knows there's a gumball or two in it for him at … more

Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 Jonathan Tropper is the best-selling author of "This is Where I Leave You" (Dutton), which might be the funniest depiction of a shiva in the history of … more

Ask Aviva Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz 5770 My family and I deeply mourn the tragic passing of Naama Markovits, a”h. May her strong, giving, beautiful family be comforted among the … more

The Kosher Bookworm by Alan Jay Gerber July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 With the recent verdict in the Rubashkin case, trials are yet again big news among Jews. However, trials are nothing new … more

Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 It’s sad that we keep falling into the same types of traps over and over and over again. Jewish history is replete with our innate inability to get along. … more

Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 Distorting McCarthy To the Editor: Representative Carolyn McCarthy has clarified her position on the flotilla. Howard Kopel is still playing … more

By Sergey Kadinsky Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz 5770 On the day before the fourth anniversary of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s kidnapping by Hamas terrorists, Jewish leaders took their … more

By Michael Orbach Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 Renee Wiener fought back. In the summer of 1944, Wiener was 19, a slim brunette with long legs and greenish brown eyes. She, … more

They'd Rabba not By Michael Orbach Issue of July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 Scholars-in-residence come and go in the Five Towns — a nearly weekly visitation to one shul or another … more