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Making people laugh and telling funny stories won't necessarily earn you a place in heaven. But you know what will? Finding people who have forgotten how to laugh or perhaps feel they will never laugh again – and making them laugh.

My family always found an open and warm welcome when they flew in for a family simcha, but now due to Hashem’s goodness and kindness I am now living in close proximity to several of my children.

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You have to be willing to start over when things aren’t working out. Sometimes it’s physically starting over and sometimes it’s a mental thing.

While we rejoice at the recent release of Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin from prison, the series continues this month and beyond.

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Eretz Yisrael opens her heart only to those who truly love her.

Seeing my distress, a very kind employee named Lori (whose last name I regretfully forgot to ask about) very compassionately offered me the use of a stroller she just “happened to have” in the back room of their office.

The Sanctuary as a human construct, mirrors the Divine creation of the universe. Each creation culminates in the Sabbath placing the sanctity of place in subordinate position to the holiness of time.

Claims of sinister Jewish control of governments used to come from the extreme Right and the extreme Left. Now they seem to be coming from the mainstream Left as well, viciously attacking Trump and Kushner

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He was so persuasive that he managed to convince the landlord. The prisoner was ordered freed.

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While Mayor de Blasio has dutifully backed the “progressive” agenda, we have yet to hear him decry the left’s growing anti-Zionism.

If, however, both borrowers have assets, all the laws of a guarantor apply and the lender may not collect the entire loan from the guarantor but must collect half from borrower.

This was not necessarily illegal on Ms. Rice’s part, since she was legally entitled to see the material in her official capacity.

The thirteenth century was a turning point in Jewish-Church relations.

Open Orthodoxy should close the door behind itself as it exits the Orthodoz Union.

No, it is not to such bloodthirsty jackals that we look to understand why terrorist incidents in Israel have significantly decreased since the early- and mid-2000s.

We have long written off the charge that Donald Trump himself is in any way a promoter of anti-Semitic sentiment or action, if only because of his personal history.

The twelve-member bipartisan congressional “super committee” on spending cuts formally conceded defeat late last month, after failing to reach common ground on the issues of tax increases and spending cuts.

When your yardstick for measuring pain and discomfort is the Holocaust, it’s difficult to get too upset about life’s minor problems – and that’s what they are.

The thief took his advice and did so. Yet, when the official got up to speak, he informed the court of all the horrible things the highwayman did to him.

Who’s The Boss? ‘One Hired A Laborer To Assist Him In Yayin Nesech’ (Avodah Zarah 62a)

I liked the promise of a new future, but I didn’t understand why it had to be anti-Zionist or anti-Jewish.

A person cannot be forced to receive something against his will, replied Rabbi Dayan. Therefore, the recipient has the 'upper hand' and can choose either to uphold the gift retroactively or to refuse it.

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So am I deserving of honor? The body I occupy sure is; just look at what it can do. But I am that little guy inside – small, insignificant, unimportant.

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