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Out of a Job? Don’t Give Up! The Power of Positive Thinking

It is certainly awful to lose one’s job, but it is worse to lose one’s self.

INSPIRATION

The Breadwinner: Can’t Find a Job? Create One!

When Laizer Solash, from Far Rockaway, New York, lost his job three years ago, he was ready to do just…

OUTREACH

What a Difference a Year Makes: Masa Israel Journey is Changing the Way Young Jews View Israel

Masa helps students strengthen their Jewish identity and develop a lifelong love of Israel. While a good percentage of Orthodox…

JEWISH LAW

What’s the Truth About…Seudah Shelishit?

Misconception: One can fulfill the obligation to eat Seudah Shelishit (The Third Meal) on Shabbat by studying Torah in lieu…

CHANUKAH

Torah “R” Us: Are Too Many Toys Bad for Our Children?

By Jack (Yankl) Botwinik “Can we stop by the dollar store?” my nine-year-old pleads as we drive home from school.…

CHANUKAH

Cooking on a Budget: Chanukah Recipes for Less Gelt

If you’re looking for ways to stretch your food budget, especially when entertaining, here are some simple solutions to help…

SUKKOT

Diras Arai

By Yossi Huttler inside the temporary walls each soul sent, enters dwelling on faith that He who built the succah…

POETRY

Hataras Nedarim

By Yossi Huttler untying the past year’s binding utterances and mutterings today I slip the knots tethering me to what…

9/11

Remembering 9/11

When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic, was forty-two. Both worked at Empire Blue…

9/11

Through the Valley of Death

The following is a meager attempt to record the awesome occurrences that both my colleagues in Hatzalah–the emergency Jewish volunteer…

9/11

Reflections on 9/11

“The great tragedy of life,” Kierkegaard wrote, “is that it must be lived forward and can only be understood backwards.”

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