Follow Knesset Vote Count in Real Time!

Posted on: January 20th, 2013

Politics junkies and sports fans alike will enjoy the new up-to-the-minute poll updates being made available for this Tuesday’s Knesset elections.

Bad Boy

Posted on: January 20th, 2013

"My engagement in medicine has taught me that in order to heal one must come in contact with the most repulsive things you can imagine."

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US-Born Candidate ‘Caught’ Yearning for Rebuilding Temple

Posted on: January 20th, 2013

The gist of his words is not the removal of the mosque as much as the building of the Temple.

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The Luni Muni

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

The New York Muni-Meter system is a disaster! There are many issues that have presented themselves with this new idea and they need to be solved.

It Happened

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

It’s history. You can’t deny it. The Holocaust. Just about the worst six years in Jewish history. The Nazis slaughtered our nation during its journey to world domination. Six million innocent people were murdered. We have evidence. We have witnesses. We have proof. So why are people denying it?

The French Connection: Unique Headscarves From Overseas

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

Judith Levy is a gorgeous French-born woman with a flair for fashion and the written word (she’s an editor for French editions of Artscroll). At the start of her second marriage she found herself in a shaitel vs. tichel predicament very similar to mine.

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Gefilte Fish Gone Hip at The Gefilteria

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

Artisan gefilte fish. For some, the phrase seems like an oxymoron. While salmon, chilean sea bass and tilapia may all be in vogue, gefilte fish, the traditional ground fish mixture that is de rigueur in Ashkenazic Jewish households at Shabbos and Yom Tov meals, is like the Henny Youngman of fish: it gets no respect.

Bear Mountain State Park

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

Bear Mountain State Park is situated in rugged mountains rising from the west bank of the Hudson River in Orange County and Rockland County, New York. The 5,067-acre (20.51 km) park offers lots of activities that can be enjoyed all year round.

Which Prime Minister Built the Most Homes in the Settlements?

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.

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Arthur Finkelstein: Channel 10 Report on His Quitting Likud is a Lie

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

Israel Channel 10 reported that the Likud's strategic campaign advisor, Arthur Finkelstein, quit the campaign. Finkelstein's office said the trip overseas today was planned well in advance.

Could You Repeat The Question?

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

You know what I noticed since I started writing this column? That people don’t write in to ask questions so much as they write in to complain.

Exodus: The Invisible Center Stage Of Redemption (Conclusion)

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

Galut Mitzrayim -- the Egyptian Exile -- has come to epitomize exile in Judaism. It is the ultimate galut, the ultimate exile and it embraces all aspects of the later exiles: displacement, foreign subjugation, powerlessness, and exposure to extreme physical and mental torture.

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Shidduch Madness: No Jumping the Queue

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

It truly defies logic when I am told by a relative’s machataynesta that on her block in Brooklyn there are a dozen girls in their mid to late 20’s and even 30’s who are waiting in vain for the phone to ring.

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Demanding Family Equity

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

Dear Dr. Yael: Your recent column on “The Wrongs Of Onas Devarim” (Dear Dr. Yael, 12-28-2012) was, for me, the worst column ever. Here’s why:

Boys And Reading: How Yoni Can Read

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

In the 1950’s, bestselling author Rudolf Flesch offered to give a friend’s son, who was a struggling reader, some help with reading. He soon discovered that the problem did not lie in the boy’s intelligence, but rather in the way that reading was taught to him in school. To set out his reading principles, Flesch wrote a now famous book entitled, Why Johnny Can’t Read – and What You Can Do About It. In it, Flesch outlined the basic approach of phonics, an effective and important manner of teaching reading.

From The Greatest Heights (Chapter I)

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

I have been promising myself that I would write about the death of my twins when I was ready. Ever since that fateful day more than 11 years ago, I have tried to write, dozens of times, but my attempts have drawn many tears and very few words. I tried again very recently, but didn’t get very far. And then the school shooting in Newtown changed everything.

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Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

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It’s My Opinion: The Bolseros

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

A raft washed up to the shore of a marina in south Florida recently. The rickety craft was fashioned from Styrofoam blocks. The posts were oars. The sail was a tarp. A hiker noticed the abandoned raft and reported it to authorities. It was feared that the occupants had perished in a fruitless effort to cross the waters from Cuba to the United States.

RASG Hebrew Academy Holds Israel Awareness Day

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

RASG Hebrew Academy held a community-wide Israel Awareness Day on December 25. The informative and meaningful event was held on the school’s main campus at 2400 Pine Tree Drive in Miami Beach.

Rohr JLI Presents ‘Living With Integrity’ Series

Posted on: January 17th, 2013

The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is offering a six-session winter 2013 course called “Living With Integrity: Navigating Everyday Ethical Dilemmas.” The classes will begin at 7:30 p.m. January 29. Rabbi Ruvi New will lead the sessions at 120 NE 1st Avenue, in Boca Raton.