By Baruch Spier
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
At the Kotel, at a shtiebel in Tiberias, and on a balcony at Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel, a short blessing created lasting memories.
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4/22/09
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By Jewish Star Staff
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Boy Scout David Rosen of Troop 613 (in uniform) at the Young Israel of West Hempstead led a renovation of part of a nature trail …
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4/22/09
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By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
The Rock it Ropers of Woodmere, the only Shomer Shabbos jump rope team in the country, will advance to the national rounds of the USA …
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4/22/09
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Consensus: a game where your opinion counts
By Yaffi Spodek
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
The season of long Shabbat afternoons is upon us. Though the weekly time warp can be …
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4/22/09
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By Dr. Michael J. Salamon
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
There is a story told about the horses that pulled the wagon of the Baal Shem Tov, the individual credited as the founder of …
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4/22/09
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By Miriam Bradman Abrahams
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
Visiting Israel is going home for many of us. It’s really a second home, a place we look forward to being and feeling …
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4/22/09
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By Helen and Ranan Wolff
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
How lucky we are to be living in the Five Towns. When our son Zev was stricken with a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, …
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4/22/09
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Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
“Honor your mother and father.”
This commandment from G-d is given to us as a Divine mandate for all time. Rabbi …
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4/22/09
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Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
National hechsher not needed
To the Editor:
I have been eating Streit’s Matzo for more than 50 years only to find, as I did my last minute …
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4/22/09
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
Issue of April 24, 2009 / 30 Nissan 5769
In Vayikra 13:33 and 14:8-9 we see instances of how people on the road to reassuming a status of “taharah” –– readiness to …
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4/22/09
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