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Heard In The Bagel Store December 10, 2025
Happy Chanukah
Many of our readers know that I’m about to delve into the history of my struggle with Chanukah. It stems...
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Heard In The Bagel Store December 3, 2025
Help Wanted
Somewhere out there my name is on a list that gets passed around, especially among people from Eretz Yisrael who travel to...
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Heard In The Bagel Store November 26, 2025
Now You See It…
Until last Friday, I had a four-week growth of hair on my face that many people in my circles looked...
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Heard In The Bagel Store November 19, 2025
Home Sweet Home
It usually takes place by the shul coffee station, but it can take place just about anywhere. One of my...
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Heard In The Bagel Store November 12, 2025
Kaddish Revisited
And so, once again, I am one of those voices you hear in shul saying Kaddish at the appropriate times during davening, which...
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Heard In The Bagel Store November 5, 2025
The Eyes Have It
One thing I’ve been familiar with since I was four is eye doctors. I don’t know the medical explanation, but...
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Heard In The Bagel Store October 29, 2025
Oh, Brother!
There were times during the process when I just felt like crying. About eight months ago, my brother Binyomin took...
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Heard In The Bagel Store October 22, 2025
In The Beginning
It all started in Israel 5786 years ago. The Divine idea was to set aside one of about a billion...
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Heard In The Bagel Store October 22, 2025
Jerusalem Diary
In the aftermath of the Sukkos yom tov here in Jerusalem, there is a shift of sorts, at least in the touristy...
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Heard In The Bagel Store This Week's Edition October 17, 2025
One Or Two
It’s an important and serious matter. And that is the observance of the chagim while in Eretz Yisrael, as was the case this...
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This Week's Edition Heard In The Bagel Store October 3, 2025
The Trek Back From Uman
Next year in Jerusalem. If not, then G-d forbid, it just might be next year in Uman. There’s a great...
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Heard In The Bagel Store This Week's Edition September 24, 2025
The Bagel King
The fact of the matter is that from the start, I thought it was a great name for a weekly...
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This Week's Edition Heard In The Bagel Store September 17, 2025
You May Be Seated
Here we are, here we go. We walk into shul every day of the year, and certainly every Shabbos, and...
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Heard In The Bagel Store September 10, 2025
It’s Sukkah-Man
By: Larry Gordon Steven Litton is driving through Pennsylvania when he thinks about calling me. I don’t have his name...
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Heard In The Bagel Store September 3, 2025
That Race For Mayor
By: Larry Gordon We hear it a lot, especially out here on Long Island as well as other parts of...
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From the Editor Heard In The Bagel Store August 27, 2025
The Elul Zman
By: Larry Gordon Two of our grandsons arrived in Israel this week to study Torah in Jerusalem for the year....
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From the Editor Heard In The Bagel Store August 27, 2025
Israel, Again
By: Larry Gordon For decades things went smoothly. We would call a travel agent or go online and book our...
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Heard In The Bagel Store August 20, 2025
Chassidic Intelligence
By: Larry Gordon It was the Shabbos that marked the JLI’s 19th anniversary. The JLI, otherwise known as the Jewish...
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