An intrepid traveler from the Five Towns combines business and pleasure in a jaunt across the time zones
By Phyllis Koegel
It was Wednesday morning in Jerusalem and I was standing at the …
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7/9/08
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Killing to live
By David Seidemann
Any time. Any day. In a heartbeat I would gladly swap 400 to 500, even 600 of the enemy alive, for one or two dead Israeli soldiers. And I’d free a …
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7/9/08
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Crossing the line
It's been quiet around here.
That's been the most obvious result of the recent uncontested election to the Lawrence school board. Renewed tension and unpleasantness that some …
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7/8/08
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Part three in a series on the financing of yeshiva and day school tuition
By Malka Eisenberg
On the streets, at stores and in offices across the community, parents and grandparents discuss the …
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7/8/08
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New village trustee did not have to be Orthodox, head of Lawrence Association says
By Yaffi Spodek
The newest trustee of the Village of Lawrence is Michael Fragin. He is an investment …
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7/8/08
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The Freifeld Legacy
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
We call it yichus — the legacy of generations of the past. Rabbis, scholars, talmidei chachamim, community leaders who were ancestors to …
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7/8/08
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A spiritual high
By David Seidemann
Fame and fortune have finally arrived. I entered a restaurant on Father’s Day, wife and kids in tow, and was greeted by a maitre de of sorts.
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7/1/08
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A Google Maps satellite image of Prospect Street off Doughty Boulevard in Inwood, where Bnot Shulamith of Long Island has entered into an agreement to purchase a campus.
By Mayer …
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7/1/08
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Trading for victims to be named later
Issue of July 4, 2008
Before her encounter with Samir Kuntar, Smadar Haran was a wife and mother of two daughters. Kuntar and other terrorists invaded …
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7/1/08
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Part two in a series on the financing
of yeshiva and day school tuition
By Malka Eisenberg
As families face escalating prices of utilities, food and fuel, the added burden of the annual …
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7/1/08
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