“Remembering Dvinsk̶...
Remembering Dvinsk provides a lucid account, without painting a romantic picture, of life in this historic town.
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Letter to the Editor: In Defen...
All students learn differently. For people like me, looking up at teachers while they lecture makes it hard to focus on what they are saying.
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I have come to realize that a critical element to my college choice is determining if the school encompasses a community that shares my religious identity and values as well as my Zionist views.
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At the Frisch School in Paramus, which I attend, students are not forced to volunteer, but the concept of chessed, kindness, is part of the school’s culture.
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At YJS, the curriculum was based on the notion that the Modern-Orthodox Jewish community should strive to integrate Judaic and secular education and apply what is learned in the classroom to situations that arise in everyday life.
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At YJS, the curriculum was based on the notion that the Modern-Orthodox Jewish community should strive to integrate Judaic and secular education and apply what is learned in the classroom to situations that arise in everyday life.
read moreDamon Feldman: “16-Minute Man”...
“It’s easy to give up because you feel you’re an underdog”
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“Moldova Matters at Frisch” Su...
Two teens from the Republic of Moldova attend Chabad’s C-Teen Convention made possible by Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus
read morePat Boone: Former Teenage Hear...
“When people who don’t know or recognize me ask if I’m Jewish, I always tell them, yes, by adoption. My parents made sure my brother, sisters, and I learned early on that the entire Good Book was written by, about, and for Jews. Too many Christians don’t quite grasp that,” he says.
read moreAntique, Illuminated Megillahs...
“Reading from a beautifully illuminated manuscript that rolls out of an exquisitely gilt scroll case has been the traditional mode of beautifying the Purim mitzvah of reading the Megillat Esther,” says Jonathan Greenstein, founder and expert-in-charge at J. Greenstein and Company.
read moreAlan Dershowitz: “The Current ...
If anyone is to blame for the recent kerfuffle over the status of Jerusalem it is not President Donald Trump, but, rather, President Barack Obama, who, a year ago, acted at the UN in lame-duck revenge against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he hated.
read moreAcclaimed Author Mark Helprin ...
Mark Helprin is comfortable with Judaism and Israel, doesn’t see Jews as self-loathing Woody Allen wannabees, and knows Donald Trump is not an anti-Semite.
read moreReal Life Kosher Cooking Is fo...
Ms. Pascal is dedicated to the principle that cooking and food are “not meant to be feared or cause stress.”
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