Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Self-Messages: The Need To Reframe
Posted on: March 26th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesCrossing boarders always makes me nervous. Even though I do nothing wrong and always declare what I am carrying, I still feel unhinged.
Anti-Semitic Incidents In Poland
Posted on: March 26th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesPeople are on edge when it comes to the topic of anti-Semitic occurrences in Poland.
Yeshiva Derech HaTorah, Brooklyn
Posted on: March 26th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: What's your favorite Jewish holiday?
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → MagazineYou might think it odd talking about Yom Kippur just days before Purim. But actually that is exactly why I am thinking so fondly of our holy fast day.
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → On Our Own/Cheryl KupferYou might think it odd talking about Yom Kippur just days before Purim. But actually that is exactly why I am thinking so fondly of our holy fast day.
Forty Years Since March Of ’68
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesThroughout Jewish history there have been many defining moments.
The Difference Between Curiosity And Pain (Part 2: An Alternative)
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesMany years ago my mother had heart surgery. The procedure was relatively new then.
Posted on: March 19th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: What will you dress up as this Purim?
Kingsway Jewish Center, Brooklyn
Posted on: March 12th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: Is capital punishment "cruel and unusual"?
Desecration At The Ohel Of Rabbi Elimelech Of Lejask
Posted on: March 12th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesIt was only last week that thousands of Chassidim went to Lejask (Lizhensk) in order to commemorate the 222nd yahrzeit of the tzaddik, Noam Elimelech of Lejask (1717-1786).
Letting Our Adult Children Be Adults
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesAs parents, it is our job to help our children develop and grow into adulthood in small steps.
Project Reach, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services Bay Ridge Jewish Center
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: What do you miss about life in Russia?
Project Reach, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services Bay Ridge Jewish Center
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: What do you miss about life in Russia?
General Grant’s Expulsion Of The Jews
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → Glimpses Into American Jewish HistoryWhile the Civil War was raging at the end of 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant sent the following letter to the Assistant Secretary of War:
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → MagazineThe poem "The Road Not Taken" by renowned American poet Robert Frost expresses the gnawing curiosity that a traveler knows he will always have about the road that he didn't take.
Agudat HaRabonim Of Poland Re-established After 70 Years
Posted on: March 5th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesAn event, thought to be impossible after the Shoah, took place in Lodz.
Ateret Avot Adult Living Facility, Brooklyn
Posted on: February 27th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesQuestion: Which 20th century leader did you admire most?
Posted on: February 27th, 2008
Sections → MagazineThe Torah relates how the Nessiim, the leaders of each tribe, donated the precious stones that were worn by the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) in his priestly garments, the Ephod and the Choshen.
The Need To Acknowledge Death: An Adult Child’s Perspective
Posted on: February 27th, 2008
Sections → Magazine → ArchivesI met an adult child, whose father had been chronically ill from the time she was three years old.
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