Last Thursday night, over 80 students from HAFTR High School, participanting in the school’s second annual Bowl-A-Thon, raised over $15,000 for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each …
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By Moshe Weiner, HAFTR Junior
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3/2/16
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A groundbreaking 1,162 participants were able to receive free and comprehensive genetic testing during three sessions organized by Yeshiva University’s Student Medical Ethics Society, in …
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3/2/16
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Hannah Slavsky’s Pop-Pop, along with other family members, gave her an awareness of the life-saving work firefighters do. As a child she washed fire trucks and checked to make sure vital …
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By Celia Weintrob
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3/2/16
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For most of my 29 years, I’ve been spoiled rotten when it comes to kosher food.
I was raised not only in New York City, but in the borough of Brooklyn, the kosher capital of the world …
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By Jacob Kamaras
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3/2/16
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As the Torah progresses with the building of the mishkan (tabernacle), we find the instructions of chapters 25–31 coming to life, culminating with Moshe telling Bezalel, “Do your …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/2/16
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Parasha Vayakel begins with the construction of the mishkan (the portable desert sanctuary): “Moses called the whole community of the children of Israel to assemble, and he said to them: …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/2/16
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In the fall of 2012, Israel was again preparing for war in response to the thousands of missiles being fired indiscriminately from the Gaza strip onto the population centers of southern Israel. As …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/2/16
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In a display of profound gratitude, the internationally renowned Torah outreach organization, Hineni, will, IY’H, honor its founder and president, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, at its 50th …
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3/2/16
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Although shneider, meaning tailor, is a common name in the Jewish community, I can’t say I have ever personally known one. I do, however, remember a scene from “Fiddler on the …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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3/2/16
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In his preface to a recent publication from Fathom, a British magazine covering the Middle East, British lawyer and anti-Semitism expert Anthony Julius—always the author of a memorable …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/2/16
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