OU career workshop attracts diverse crowd
By Yaffi Spodek
Tamar Friedman of Far Rockaway is an aspiring sonographer. Though she earned the necessary degree over a year ago and consulted with …
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7/16/08
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Dear That’s Life,
With summer now in full swing, many of the local day camps have started tzedakah campaigns to help fund various worthy causes. The camp my two daughters attend is no exception. …
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7/16/08
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Literature of the three weeks and the Holocaust
“Eim HaBanim Semeichah” as edited and translated by Rabbi Dr. Pesach Schindler
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Midway through the …
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7/16/08
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Misaskim, local residents, played crucial role after a death
By Malka Eisenberg
The call came about two hours before Shabbos. Two counselors and a social worker, all from the Five Towns-Far …
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7/16/08
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Affecting fate
By David Seidemann
Exactly how hard should I try? When does human effort end and divine effort begin? If G-d is all-knowing and a leaf doesn’t turn over in the wind without …
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7/16/08
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Golan Sion Creek White Semi-Dry 2007
By Adam Neustadter
It has recently been brought to my attention that not everybody who reads these reviews appreciates dry wine. I know, I know, it …
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7/16/08
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Issue of July 18, 2008
This Sunday is the 17th of Tammuz, the fast day that marks the beginning of the Three Weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av.
Against that backdrop, the responses to writer …
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7/16/08
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First Person
By Masada Siegel
I first met Senator John McCain when I was working as a television reporter in a small town market. It was my first assignment. I was sent out with the hope of …
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7/16/08
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Why isn’t keeping halacha good enough anymore?
By Jessie Fischbein
My 12-year-old daughter doesn't like to wear socks in the summer. When she became bas mitzvah, she began to …
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7/16/08
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Water safety tips for the summer
By Dov Winston
Drowning, and water safety are subjects on many people’s lips in Nassau County this summer after the widely publicized story of a nanny in …
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7/16/08
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