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.

Keystone Jewish Center Celebrates Chanukah
Posted on: December 19th, 2012
Sections → Community → South FloridaThe Keystone Jewish Center held a public menorah lighting on Wednesday, December 12, in front of the City Hall of North Miami. The celebration took place for the ninth consecutive year at the city’s building and featured a 15-foot menorah, the largest on city municipal property in South Florida. The menorah was lit throughout the eight days of the holiday.

Community Currents – December 21, 2012
Posted on: December 19th, 2012
Sections → Community → Community Currents.
Mud Flies As Israeli Election Nears
Posted on: December 19th, 2012
Sections → Special Features → Israel Elections 5773JERUSALEM – With one month to go before Israelis cast their ballots, religious and nationalist parties have engaged in highly negative campaigns against each other, claiming that only their party will be able to pressure the next prime minister into promoting their domestic, economic and religious agendas. According to all polls, those parties are likely to be the basis of the next governing coalition – expected to be led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Weekly Poll Average: Right Leading with 67.5 Seats
Posted on: December 16th, 2012
Sections → Special Features → Israel Elections 5773The right of center parties continue to maintain their lead, albeit by a slightly smaller margin in eight polls released December 9-15.

Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriOn the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, over twenty-one hundred years ago, the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated after it was wrenched from the hands of the defiling Greeks. Thus ended a war no one planned or even dreamed could happen.

Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesUnless you are one of the lucky few who were born with picture perfect hair immune to frizz and flyaway's, you have got a few curly hair problems - just like me.

Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → Teens and TwentiesI still don’t cross the street on the corner of West End Avenue. Just looking at that intersection causes a chill to run down my spine, and my thoughts suddenly wander back to November 22, 2011.

Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → BooksIn my weekly Jewish Press column, “Dear Dr. Yael,” I occasionally recommend books that will enhance shalom bayis, parenting skills and the quality of the Shabbos table. Lilmod Ulelamed, eloquently written by Rabbi Mordechai Katz, is a newly revised and expanded version of the original that was published by Feldheim Publishers in 1978. It is a book that can truly improve your Shabbos table.

Yeshiva University’s Azrieli School Going Global
Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → FeaturesA Jewish educator anywhere in the world can now seek the accumulated knowledge available at the The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. With the introduction this spring of a degree that can be completed online, geography is no longer a bar to attendance in an Azrieli Master’s program.

Sotheby’s Chanukah Auction: December 19, 2012
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → ArtsSilence. There is an overwhelming silence that dominates the Isidor Kaufmann masterpiece, Rabbi with Young Student (catalogue #93) offered for sale at the Sotheby’s December 19th auction. Kaufmann’s most engaging paintings for me are the deeply psychological portraits, usually of Hasidic men, young women and youths. It is noteworthy that Kaufmann (1853 – 1921) and Freud (1856 – 1939) were contemporaries and both lived in Vienna during the same period.

Likud’s First Lady: Adopt Levy Report, Expand Construction
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Special Features → Israel Elections 5773Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely celebrated her victory in the Likud primaries.

Gimpel to Head Jewish Home Party’s English-Speakers Campaign
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
News → IsraelThe Jewish Home party announced the launch of its English-speaking campaign.

How To Get A Job In Any Economy
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → For the HomeOh, Chanukah! Chanukah, the festival of lights and the powerful story of the unlikely military victory of the Maccabees. One lesson we’re able to glean from the Maccabees is the importance of doing just a little bit more then you think you are capable of. As we all know, the Maccabees were quite aware that taking on the mighty Greek army was a suicide campaign. Yet, they succeeded.

Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWelcome to “You’re Asking Me?” the column where people are basically saying, “This guy doesn’t know me at all. Let me ask him for advice.”

From Socially Awkward To Socially Adept
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenConversations in my head always there but never to be said, Can't escape my childish dreams, my fantasies, the unreal realities, Talking to myself again no one seems to be around, I hide myself inside myself, never thinking I'll be found… -Jamie Sue Reinhart

Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Family → Chronicles of Crises.

Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Family → Parenting Our ChildrenIn Part I of My Soul Is On Fire, I told my readers about Allan, a very distraught nineteen year old who, in a moment of dire pain, told me he felt his soul was on fire.
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