It gets harder and harder with each prayer project. As I get older, when disappointment and painful silence of unanswered prayers stares you in the face, you feel quieter and more humbled each …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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3/23/17
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About a year and a half ago, I wrote an article about Leslie Kellner, who attended elementary and high school with my husband Jerry. I was tagged in a picture on Facebook, because Leslie had posted a …
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By Judy Joszef
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3/23/17
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The second of our two Torah portions, Parashat Pekudei, contains the final verse of Sefer Shemot: “For the cloud of the L-rd was upon the Mishkan by day, and there was fire within it at night, …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/23/17
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When the donations were finally brought to the Tabernacle, the Torah describes how the men and women came. But the phraseology utilized (beginning of 35:22) is questionable. A literal translation …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/23/17
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After finally completing infantry officer’s course and then tank officer’s course, I was assigned to the 430th Battalion of the 500th Armored Brigade in the Jordan valley. Given a few …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/23/17
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WASHINGTON — Maintaining Iran sanctions, crushing BDS and ensuring aid to Israel are high on the agenda, of course.
But the overarching message at this year’s conference of the …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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3/23/17
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Now, can you just imagine this: another new Haggadah for this year’s Pesach celebrations. And its author, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, has been a rabbi right here on the South …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/19/17
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Eight students from HAFTR’s debate team competed in the annual Great Debate hosted by Yeshiva University’s High School for Boys (MTA) on Sunday, Feb. 26. Participants included sophomores …
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By Rachel Sacks, grade 12
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3/10/17
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FOOD PANTRY
On Rosh Chodesh Adar, the chesed committee of Shulamith Middle Division volunteered at the Rina Shkolnik Food Pantry at the JCC in Cedarhurst, delivering toiletries collected during …
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3/10/17
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Midreshet Shalhevet recently invited all current students, mothers, and grandmothers, as well as its incoming freshmen, to gather at the annual Mother Daughter Dinner.
The night began with music, …
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3/10/17
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