Advice May 13, 2025

Supporting Peninsula Library: If Not Now, When?

By Michele Justic As Managing Content Editor of the Five Towns Jewish Times, I balance my job with raising my children,...

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Torah May 13, 2025

Half a Pasuk in This World, Half a Pasuk in the Next

By Rabbi Benny Berlin We find ourselves approaching Lag Ba’Omer, a day that commemorates the life and teachings of Rabbi...

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Torah May 13, 2025

A Window Into Widows

Part I In Parashat Emor, the noun almanah (“widow”) appears twice: Once when stating that a Kohen Gadol is forbidden to marry an alamanh (Lev. 21:14), and once...

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Torah May 13, 2025

The Meaning Of Greatness

Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt’l, the beloved rosh yeshiva of Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was considered the posek ha-dor, the leading halachic authority...

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Torah May 13, 2025

Creation Appreciation

Ben Azai used to say: "Do not despise any person, and do not dismiss any thing, for there is no...

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Israel May 13, 2025

The Lasting Scars of War: More Stories of Resilience and Chesed Through the Eyes of Israel’s Volunteer Gabbai Tzedakah Network

Displaced children from the South enjoying a summer respite Part II Last week we focused on the quiet heartbreak and...

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Israel May 13, 2025

Turning Pain Into Light: Mantzichim’s Eternal Legacy Of Love

Natalia, the mother of Keshet Kasruti HYD, who was murdered in Nova, dances with a Torah scroll in his memory...

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Israel May 13, 2025

Cramming Life Into A Year And A Year Into Six Weeks

In AP Psychology, you learn about Erikson’s eight Stages of Development—the emotional conflicts we face at different points in life....

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Advice May 6, 2025

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

Rabbi Chaim and Author Dovid Zaklikowski in the Bozeman shul Rabbi Chaim with Rav Reuven Shlit"a at the Bar Mitzvah...

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News & Politics May 6, 2025

Protecting Our Communities And Coastlines: The Resistance To The Radical Green Energy Revolution

Congressman D’Esposito speaks to Congressional Offshore Wind Caucus Across the United States, there is a growing resistance taking shape. It’s...

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News & Politics May 6, 2025

Albany’s Broken Budget Process Is Robbing New Yorkers Blind

By Assemblyman Ari Brown (R-Cedarhurst) It’s May 6, and New York’s budget, legally due on April 1, is still being...

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Torah May 6, 2025

Give It To Me Straight

One of your main concerns as a parent when your child gets braces is, “Is there parking at the orthodontist’s...

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Torah May 5, 2025

After The Fire, The Fire Still Burns

After The Fire, The Fire Still Burns Last week marked the most symbolic time of the modern Jewish calendar. Yom HaZikaron and Yom...

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Israel May 5, 2025

Visiting The Temple Mount (Har HaBayit)

Yonatan on Har Habayit  Credit: Photo Dr. Alex Sternberg The author this Pesach on Har Habayit By Dr. Alex Sternberg...

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Advice May 5, 2025

Where Do I Go From Here? A Journey of Becoming

Where Do I Go From Here? A Journey of Becoming This week, I received a letter that stayed with me:...

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Advice May 5, 2025

Dating Forum

Question We have married off all our children except for the youngest daughter. Baruch Hashem, all my married children have families,...

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Torah May 5, 2025

Tears And Joy

We are blessed to live in a remarkable period of our history.  Years ago, on a Thursday morning at the...

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Books May 5, 2025

How A Rabbi And PhD Gained The Most Insight From His Mother: Review of “Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Powerful Torah ideas from a Mom’s parting words”

By Rabbi Elie Feder, PhD, $19.99 (196p) ISBN 978-1961602670 Review by Michele Justic The greatest scholars, philosophers, and scientists of...

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