Mutual respect for another person’s beliefs and opinions is in very short supply. It is most heartening when we encounter an episode that demonstrates when two great rabbis are placed into a situation wherein they demonstrate mutual respect to the entire world. more

Headline hairlines To the Editor: Since David Nesenoff took over the Jewish Star I have noticed the following: featured on the front page were David Nesenoff, Ari Fleisher, Joel Lion and baby … more

After thousands of car crashes, a stop sign was installed at the dangerous intersection. The building burned down and then a fire alarm was placed on top of the ashes. Immediately after the patient died he was brought into the OR for surgery. more

One across is a five-letter word “what people are wanting,” ending in “y.” Hmm. Well that could be money or happy. Let’s see, three down is seven letters, “the purpose of our existence.” Hmm. Has to be either “eat food” or “educate.” I’ll figure that out as soon as I get seven across. “Gross food for children,” starting with a “t.” That’s easy either “tongue” or “tofu.” more

Forty-eight hours before the Kosher Food and Wine Experience (KFWE) began, disaster struck. I fell victim to a horrific stomach virus that I feared would keep me from attending. Determined not to miss the crowning event of the kosher culinary year, I healed myself through positive thoughts and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. more

Will the last wealthy person leaving New York State please turn off the lights? While leftists across the country are tied up in their underwear trying to find ways to punish success with over-taxation, New York has lost taxpayers at an alarming rate. Not all taxpayers actually, just the ones who pay the highest taxes. more

Shortly before Thanksgiving, a video entitled “Yeshiva Guy Says Over a Vort” was posted on YouTube and made its rounds through many of our emails. In it, two animated bears discuss a Torah thought related to the traditional interpretation that the forefathers kept the commandments of the Torah before Sinaitic revelation. The darker bear begins the conversation saying, “Can I say over a vort that I heard by my rebbe’s house last shabbos?” more

DRS senior Avi Moisa’s project, “Can Your Eyes Define You? A Correlation of Dissociative Capacity to Personality Traits and Learning Styles,” has been accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association this august in Washington, D.C. more

Merchants rushed around frantically trying to pull in customers. Shoppers dashed through dense crowds to grab their purchases and get home while tourists observed the Friday afternoon frenzy in the Jewish shuk at Machane Yehuda. Enveloped in this unmitigated commotion of sight and sound, one man stood out in my mind. He held a long stick reaching to the ground in front of him, feeling around cautiously. He was blind. more

The largest bakery in Jerusalem suffered a tragedy as a Romanian foreign worker named Yulia is killed in a suicide bus bombing, but without a family to claim her body, it is up to the bakery’s human resources manager to track down the relatives and improve the image of a business accused of indifference towards its workers. more