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Question: Whom would you like to see as the next prime minister of Israel?

Over the last three weeks I have written about caregivers needing to accept their limitations and make changes accordingly.

On Thursday August 21 an unusual ceremony took place at the Baudouina Orphanage in Warsaw, Poland.

Well spouses need to re-evaluate often their situation and how they are relating to their loved ones.

For many parents late summer is a bittersweet time. Children are going off to college, or a post- high school year in Israel, or getting married.

Jewish art in Poland, as in other places throughout the world, comes from two sources: art by Jews or art by gentiles about Jews.

Question: Whom would you rather see as first lady - Cindy McCain or Michelle Obama?

There was a time when I wore a message button daily. I wore it more to remind myself of the message than anyone else reading it.

The museum at the Auschwitz death camp is warning that its historic buildings will collapse without funding from world governments.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The children and grandchildren of prominent Americans who opposed the 1936 Berlin Olympics are following in their elders' footsteps, with an Olympics protest of their own.

As time moves on, and we get older, what we can do changes.

I'm not a doctor, nor a biological scientist, but I do know that people under stress produce a hormone called cortisol, which helps the body deal with a stressful event by increasing energy and immunity and even lowering sensitivity to pain.

The political world was abuzz this week with the news that Rep. Eric Cantor, the chief deputy minority whip in the House of Representatives and that body's lone Jewish Republican, was being seriously considered by Sen. John McCain as his vice-presidential running mate.

When RJJ passed away, he was survived by his wife, Esther Rachel[i], his son Raphael, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Brody and Mrs. S. R. Schultz.

I have written several articles, in the past years, about the Well Spouse Foundation. I became a member of this organization decades ago.

During the construction work carried out in the city of Radom workers found a number of richly polychromatic (multi-colored) matzevot (tombstones) beneath the ground.

As Bnei Yisroel passed through the land of Ya'azer and Gilad in the "Ever HaYarden" (land East of the Jordan River) they noticed that the land was very fertile and quite suitable for grazing animals.

Thank you for your letters. I received so many letters on this topic asking me what a person can do to help, if mentioning weight is counterproductive.

Jews globally are commemorating the Three Weeks of Mourning period that began with last Sunday's 17th Day of Tammuz fast and culminates with the Fast of Tisha B'Av.

The Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow is one of the most important and largest events of its kind in the world.

I have spent the last few articles discussing what, I have come to believe, are abusive comments made to overweight people in the guise of caring and acceptability.

An Interview With Holocaust Chronicler Stuart Mirsky

Question: What's on your summer reading list?

Last week I shared a letter from a gentleman who felt it was appropriate to comment on people's weight.

My last two columns dealt with the biblical injunction that we "watch over our souls."

A few weeks ago I wrote about the ceremony in Poznan, rededicating the Jewish cemetery, in which the famous Rabbi Akiva Eiger is interred.

Dear Ms. Novick: There once was a time when I sincerely believed that I was open-minded regarding people who are overweight.

In a recent front-page essay (May 30, 2008) and in last month's "Glimpses" column we traced the life of Rabbi Jacob Joseph (1840-1902). Rabbi Joseph, who studied in the famed Volozhiner Yeshiva, was an outstanding Talmudic scholar and one of Rav Yisroel Salanter's main students.

In the past weeks I gave several examples of comments made to friends about their being overweight.

Of all the formerly large Jewish communities in Poland, Lodz is one of the best organized today.