I used to think teshuvah was about punishment. Not intellectually, I knew better than that. But somewhere underneath the knowing, in the...
Read MoreQuestion I was invited for a Shabbos meal by the parents of a boy I’m dating very seriously. I always...
Read MoreYom Kippur is a transformative day. It’s the one day a year when we are granted the opportunity to attain...
Read More“What are you serving for the break-fast?” is a common thing I hear this time of year. I have long...
Read MoreOur city turned a parking lane into a bus lane exactly during the time that our early morning Shacharisends. And if...
Read MoreYom Kippur is a personal and solitary experience. We descend into the chambers of our personality and search for what...
Read MoreTwenty-five years ago, on September 11, 2001, I woke up for what was supposed to be an important day in...
Read Morejscreen Marks Tay-Sachs Awareness Month September is Tay-Sachs Awareness Month, and jscreen, a national nonprofit public health initiative, is calling...
Read MoreMagen David Adom special modes of transport During the Hebrew year 5786, MDA marked 96 years of activity. Over the...
Read MoreTouro University has received approval from the NYS Department of Education to launch its new Post-Master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice...
Read MoreHALB, a local Chabad group, and reportedly a neighborhood mosque are quietly vying for the shuttered campus — and the...
Read MoreLarry and Esta bring Rabbi Shmuel Lichtenstein of Kollel Avreich and Yochanan Gordon, Associate Editor of 5TJT, into a debate...
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I know some people who have never been in more than one shul during their entire adult lives. Now that I think about it, I prefer moving around, trying different shuls. Do you think that’s a good idea or not? The fact of the matter is that when I was too young to cross a […]
Read MoreMy brother Binyomin, a’h, has three great daughters: Perel, Naomi, and Malkie. Let me tell you two things about them. Perel is named after my sister-in-law Sandy’s grandmother. Naomi is named after my paternal grandmother. And Malkie is named after my maternal grandmother, my mother’s mother, Chaya Malka. My brother Binyomin was sadly niftar almost 11 months ago. Since, […]
Read MoreCan you imagine yeshiva classes beginning in mid-August back when you were in school? I remember once receiving a notice at home when I was going into sixth grade notifying us that school was going to start either August 29 or 30. But that was about all I was willing to take. I told my […]
Read MoreFor the past 26 years, the 5TJT has been highly selective and careful not just about the stories we cover and report on, but the ads we accept and sometimes reject. Last week, I made a mistake in allowing a full-page ad for the sale of cannabis that set off a small furor in our community. And […]
Read MoreFifty years ago, I knew the Catskills roads so well that I was able to drive them at high speeds at night with my headlamps off. I knew all the twists and turns and curves, and my hands could navigate the car as if by instinct. I was adept at Lake House Road and the […]
Read MoreWhat I appreciate about Mayor Zohran Mamdani are his crisp, finely tailored white shirts and thin black ties he wears. Beyond his sartorial choices, I’ve rarely encountered a political figure as openly hostile and, shall I say, contemptible as he is. People say all the time that Mamdani bristles with anger toward many groups, but […]
Read MoreIt might be the most coveted and enjoyable season of the year depending on which part of the world you reside in. Although it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter in locations like Melbourne, Australia and Johannesburg, South Africa, but nothing like your typical New York winter. With Tishah B’Av now behind us, baruch Hashem, […]
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