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Charitable Giving Through Your Estate Plan

If supporting causes you care about is part of your legacy, your estate plan can serve as a powerful and...

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Advice June 17, 2025

DATING FORUM

Question When I was in high school, there was an awful song called “Friday” that everyone loved. Fourteen years later,...

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Advice June 16, 2025

The Rocket’s Red Glare

When Francis Scott Key penned the lyrics to what would become the American National Anthem, he attempted to describe a...

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Advice June 11, 2025

Building Bridges In A Fractured World

Building Bridges In A Fractured World: A Review Of Common Ground By Rabbi Arieh Friedner 5TJT Staff In an era...

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Advice June 11, 2025

The Day I Stopped Hiding Behind My Own Smile

“I didn’t know all this about you, that you’re a professor, a writer. To me, you’re still my younger sister-in-law.”...

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Advice June 11, 2025

Reflections On Body Image, Vanity, And The Power Of Plastic Surgery

By B. Aviva Preminger, MD, MPH, FACS Recently, I returned to Cambridge for my 25th Harvard reunion. I rowed crew...

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Advice June 9, 2025

Gullible Travels

The Talmud (Yevamos 121a) tells the story of when Rabbi Akiva was shipwrecked at sea. He managed to find a piece...

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Advice May 26, 2025

The Torah Was Given in a Desert To Teach Us A Profound Truth

There’s something almost absurd about preparing for Shavuos with fresh-cut flowers and crisp white tablecloths when the holiest moment in...

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Advice May 26, 2025

Dating Forum

Question My twins, a boy and a girl, are both 30 and in shidduchim. Whenever I complain that the shidduch system is one-sided,...

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Advice May 21, 2025

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

This past Shabbos we had the great zechus to host Judith Raanan who, together with her daughter Natalie, were abducted on October...

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Advice May 20, 2025

What We Carry Until We Speak

They hadn’t been together in years. Fourteen siblings, each carrying different versions of their childhood, had not spoken for a...

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Advice May 14, 2025

The School Year Twilight

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence We’re at that funny point in the year when the kids seem to have collectively...

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Advice Torah May 14, 2025

Torah And Tefilla: A Two-Step Dance

By Yochanan Gordon Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught that a Jew must turn their Torah into tefillah—not simply learn, but cry,...

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Advice May 13, 2025

Fine, But Not Fine

Sometimes I wish I could hook my brain up to a projector and show you what it’s like inside. Not...

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Advice May 13, 2025

DATING FORUM

Question My boss told me I should write to you. I want to be honest, so I’m telling you in...

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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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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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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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