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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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Heard In The Bagel Store August 13, 2025

Comfort Our People

By: Larry Gordon Last week was an auspicious anniversary for me. It was the weekend of my bar mitzvah parashah and the Haftorah—Nachamu,...

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Heard In The Bagel Store August 6, 2025

On Shoes

By Larry Gordon When we lived in Brooklyn over near Kings Highway, there was a shoe repair shop by the...

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Heard In The Bagel Store July 31, 2025

Country Roads

The winding, twisting roads somehow became ingrained in my memory. Perhaps it was all that driving during my youth, before...

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