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Community Articles/How to Improve
Like it or not, we are all gladiators. We go to sleep and wake up in a social arena from which there is no escape. Challenge upon challenge confronts us, walls restrain us, and a mob of spectators mocks, sneers, or cheers us. Each and every day brings new battles whether we want them or not and whet...
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Community Articles/Education
In February of 1833, Horace de Gunzburg was born in the town of Zvenigorodka, Ukraine. The grandson of Chabad hasidim, while not affiliated with the movement, he lived his life emulating the Chabad creed of helping one's fellow Jew, and actually assisted the Lubavitcher Rebbe in many public endeavor...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Tragedy struck Asael Shabo, when he was 10 years old, in 2002. He was at home with his three brothers, Nerya, 15, Tzvika, 12, and Avishai, 5, and his mother. It was a cool summer night, he and his brothers were watching TV, while his mom cleaned the kitchen.
At the same time a Palestinian terro...
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Community Articles/Health
Most of us know that strength training is important, but that doesn't make it any easier to do it. It may help to know why strength training is so important and all the ways it can help you look and feel better. Here are my favorite reasons to lift weights and get motivated to start strength trainin...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Recently, at Bay Academy, across from Sheepshead Bay's Holocaust Memorial Park, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz presented awards to the top prize winners of the Seventh Annual Holocaust Memorial Art, Essay and Poetry contest. The contest attracted entries from throughout Southern Brooklyn.
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Community Articles/Community Events
Brooklyn's Shaare Zion Synagogue recently held a cocktail reception to benefit the Aleh Foundation's new special education school campus in Pardes Katz, 10 minutes from Tel-Aviv. This beautiful new complex will contain 24 classrooms, an olympic-sized therapeutic swimming pool, a rooftop playground a...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
During a recent visit to Mexico, I spent three days in Mexico City, where I had a chance to visit the institutions of the Aleppan Jewish community. My host was Dr. Liz Hamui, a professor at the National University of Mexico, whom I met at the International Conference on Syrian Jewry held in May at B...
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Community Articles/Education
The Allegra Franco Sephardic Women’s Teachers College is doing more than opening doors to higher Judaic education for women in our community. By providing an opportunity for the women of our community to be exposed to an enlightened Torah and Judaic education, whether they become teachers, exe...
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Community Articles/Community Events
ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem is one of the world's leading specialists in the active and intensive rehabilitation of children with a broad range of physical disabilities. ALYN is a non-profit organization treating babies, children, adolescents and young adults. The hospital receives minimal funding fr...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Washington was the place to be from June 2 through 4, when politicians gathered with 7,000 activists, students and scholars from all 50 states for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference. Among those present at this prestigious event were Prime Minister of Israel Ehud ...
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Community Articles/Travel
I am looking at the hauntingly beautiful Sea of Galilee surrounded by Judean hills. My vantage point is the balcony of the small hotel apartment where my daughter, Holly, my son-in-law Doug, my two grandsons Robbie and Jeremy and I are staying. It's difficult to reconcile reality with dream.
Th...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Afew moments in life stand-out as encapsulating all of the greatness of our community at once. One of those moments recently occurred as an enthused group of community members and Barkai Yeshivah parents and administrators gathered at the home of Marjorie and Isaac G. Gindi in support of Barkai Ye...
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Community Articles/Community Events
IMAGE Magazine reported in August that the nation's first Jewish-themed, taxpayer-funded, charter school was set to open in Hollywood, Florida: The Ben Gamla Charter School, named after Rabbi Joshua Ben Gamla, a first-century rabbi who lived in ancient Israel and is credited with establishing the...
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Community Articles/Automotive
Every year they promise us the best performance, value, quality, utility and prestige in the latest cars to make it to their showroom. Once again, this year’s Consumer Reports tries to weed through the web of advertising to find the standout 2007 vehicles.
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Community Articles/Community Events
It was two stories high and 26 feet wide. The huge, inflatable movie screen towered over the blanketed grass at Reach for the Stars' first annual movie night.
10/02/2007 | 266 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF
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Community Articles/Jewish History
In olden times, Sephardic Jews in the Balkan states and Turkey were married very young. The girl was 14 or younger, the husband 18 or 20. It was considered a great humiliation for the parents if their children were still unmarried after that age.
The young people were not allowed to voice thei...
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Community Articles/Education
Parents and children of America have a grievance. Government compels us to pay into the public educational system, but will not allow us to choose the schools that best meet the needs of our children. This choice is left to government educrats who decide which schools our children attend and what th...
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Community Articles/Community Events
On a recent Friday, a dark SUV pulled up to a waiting police car on Ave. T and out stepped the Rishon Le'Sion, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Hacham Shlomo Moshe Amar. The Hacham arrived erev Shabbat, joined by his wife Mazal and his son Eliyahu. Wearing the official dress of the Rishon Le'Sion, he was ...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Our community was deeply saddened when community leader Abraham Sultan passed away. At his eulogy, he was called a visionary. Over 60 years ago he understood the need our young people had for a center. He not only understood the need, he was the driving force behind the idea and the fund- raising ef...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Lena Cymbrowitz was a beloved community member. After her passing, her husband, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz wrote this: Lena knew that her passing would be particularly hard for me. We were more than husband and wife. We were best friends, partners, and soulmates. Whenever I would begin to cry she...
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