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Apr 14, 2014, 7:50 AM
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They Gave-I Cried
At holiday time, even those in need themselves do what they can to help others
Jan 1, 2014, 6:33 PM
Closing doors, opening new ones
In 1958 on a cold wintry Chicago night, 25 couples gathered to discuss what was happening in the barely ten year-old Israel. Soon after, my parents joined them. This past month, after meeting (monthly) for almost 55 years to...
Jul 23, 2013, 6:22 AM
Feeling The Am Yisrael Love
When the mud-slinging was getting the best of us during the Nine Days, Ilene Bloch-Levy came to bat with a great 'picker-upper'.....enjoy. I got into matchmaking, in a matter of speaking, in a very small way. It started with a...
Jul 22, 2013, 12:43 PM
Feeling The Am Yisrael Love
When the mud-slinging was getting the best of us during the Nine Days, Ilene Bloch-Levy came to bat with a great 'picker-upper'.....enjoy. I got into matchmaking, in a matter of speaking, in a very small way. It started with a...
Jul 15, 2013, 12:02 PM
Who You Callin’ Amalek!?
Authored by my friend and mentor, Steve Kohn of Raanana, who eloquently articulates here what many are thinking... A few days before Tisha B'Av and a rabbi seizes the opportunity to demonstrate why the second Temple was destroyed. He makes...
Jun 25, 2013, 1:02 PM
Party On!
There is no person more divisive in Israel than our current President, Shimon Peres. The Nobel Prize for Divisiveness is his, hands down. Accompanying the endless hullabaloo of last week's events, were many citizens' ambivalence, anger that the festivities cost 11...
May 20, 2013, 5:07 PM
Wanted: Dead (?) or Alive
Just last week, I received a request from a contact abroad to look into burial options for her in Israel. And to ask me, specifically, that question is like asking me to drink ten cups of milk knowing darn well...
Nov 13, 2012, 4:11 PM
‘Rising’ After Sandy
We all have moments when we attribute an event to either the Hand of G-d, or to circumstance, or somewhere in the middle. So, in the aftermath of Sandy, whichever mode you are in, religious, spiritual, chance, or other, please...
Oct 24, 2012, 9:08 AM
Don’t fall into the gap
This is Lech Lecha week. This is what IT is all about for me and, I am sure, so many others. IT, meaning religion. IT, meaning my being part of Am Yisrael . IT, meaning the life we have...
Aug 21, 2012, 10:17 AM
‘Tis The (Aliyah) Season
In honor of my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Rabbi Avi and Dr. Shulamis Pollak, who are making Aliyah today with their five children (ages 1-10) and dog, Lila. It is boiling hot...it is summer in Israel..it is Aliyah Season! The perennial question:...
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