When it comes to acts of loving-kindness, plenty of rabbis talk a good game. But Rabbi Ari Sytner has put his entire self into the endeavor.
When Rabbi Sytner met the person in the adjoining …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org
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3/15/17
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How do people behave when they visit a concentration camp or a Holocaust memorial?
Do they act as if there are in place of reverence or mourning? Or do they behave as crowds do at any tourist …
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By Gabe Friedman, JTA
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3/15/17
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At his bar mitzvah celebration, Lavi Gimpel’s great-grandmother handed him a check that she said was “enough for seven trees.”
“One for each member of your family. When I …
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By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org
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3/15/17
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Walking from South Nassau Communities Hospital’s busy parking lot to its main entrance, visitors pass trees and shrubbery lining an inviting path to a lobby with polished floors, snug couches …
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By Ben Strack
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3/15/17
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Iran’s foreign minister accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “fake history” for saying that Iran sought the annihilation of the Jews, just as had ancient Persia in …
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By JTA
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3/15/17
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This Purim, 19 students from Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence gathered in the upstairs Bais Medrash of the Young Israel of West Hempstead for a special Rambam Mesivta Yeshivas Mordechai HaTzadik …
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3/15/17
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Judy’s off this week (getting ready for Pesach?), so we’re reprinting a favorite from 2012.
Pesach! Ahhhh … so many memories. I loved helping my mom clean the house, line the …
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By Judy Joszef
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3/15/17
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Couture for a Cause’s latest benefit was a sell-out fundraiser to benefit Lev Leytzan, the organization with Five Towns roots that brings compassionate clowning to the sick …
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3/15/17
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A winning hockey team, cheering fans and teachers prepping for their next class are what Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway envisioned as it opened, on Purim Sunday, the school’s …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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3/15/17
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After chanting Megillat Esther for their fellow Middle School students, faculty, and their families and friends, 18 Ashkenazic and Sephardic North Shore Hebrew Academy display certificates attesting …
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3/15/17
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