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Sep 12, 2024, 8:15 AM

My sister Leila and I got our degrees in subjects that very few women had majored in at Lander College: I studied Judaic Studies and she studied Math. Before we graduated, we both took a thesis course, researching a...

Aug 19, 2024, 5:55 AM

The Real Answer to The Question

Take a look at how we are answering to the Nazis’ Jewish Question, eighty-five years later. Shlomo Bochner, a chassid and founder of the fertility organization Bonei Olam (Builders of the World), sent out a video last week of his...

Aug 7, 2024, 12:45 PM

Can’t ‘AI’ Me Love

For the next couple of days, we are hyper-focused on distancing ourselves from anger and dislike and encouraging unity. Anger, to me, evokes novels strewn with shattered vases, miserable marriages, and punched-in walls. As Mussar literature posits, anger can...

Jul 30, 2024, 9:01 AM

To Fear or Not To Fear: That is The Answer

Fear is what holds us together and, at the same time, pulls us apart. While fear is intrinsically adaptive in terms of staying away from dangers in our environment, fear is generally not protective or productive. Instead, it can...

Jul 28, 2024, 6:25 PM

Don’t Give Up on Giving

King Shlomo compares a person who loves money to one who hates it, ending the verse with ושונא מתנות יחיה, one who hates gifts will live. Quoting this pasuk, the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch discuss the middas ha-chasidus (righteous...

Jul 19, 2024, 4:53 AM

Home Is Where The Hard Work Is

Last week at the Shabbos table, my husband Chaim and I had an interesting discussion. We talked about how people are multi-faceted, in that every person has a strength and a weakness. In other words, we are not simple...

Jul 12, 2024, 7:34 AM

Heaven, Here We Come!

“It’s heaven!” Most people who say this aren’t hearing a Bas Kol or the bells of Cherubim. Instead, they’re probably hit with a waft of delicious-smelling cookies upon returning home from work, or as they collapse into their down...

Jul 5, 2024, 8:01 AM

After a variety of mitzvos, we say the Yehi Ratzon prayer, “May it be Gd’s Will to rebuild the Beis Hamikdash,” as we light candles, ushering in the Shabbos Queen; when we immerse in the mikvah, inviting marital intimacy...

Jun 28, 2024, 11:54 AM

Of Minutes and Men

I was chatting with a friend today about how my new dermatologist reminds me of my dad in that he seemed like a very nice and frum older man with many years of experience. Following his recommendation for a...

Jun 2, 2024, 2:55 PM

Cheesecake, Double-Negatives and the Truth Behind Shavuos

Rabbi Eliezer Silver, leading four hundred rabbis to Capitol Hill on October 6, 1943 to beseech FDR to help save the remainders of European Jewry.
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(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lillian Silver)

When I go up to Shamayim, HaShem will ask me three questions: Did you speak the truth? Were you bigger than that? And did you believe G-d could save you? At least this is my modern-day version of the ancient...

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About Me

Este Abramowitz is a Yeshiva English teacher and has a Master of Arts in Jewish History from Touro Graduate School of Jewish Studies. She owns a sushi business and lives in Lakewood, NJ with her husband and children.