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Community Articles/Community Events
Event preparations were set up in the white and green Generation Angel colors, from big banners to the five white tents atop the green grass. Coordinators worked hard to arrange their summer career event in Deal, featuring sessions given by community businessmen and professionals from an asso...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
Event preparations were set up in the white and green Generation Angel colors, from big banners to the five white tents atop the green grass. Coordinators worked hard to arrange their summer career event in Deal, featuring sessions given by community businessmen and professionals from an assortment ...
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Community Articles/FL News
Our Sages teach us that the world continues to stand because of three deeds: learning Torah, working and doing acts of kindness. A huge act of kindness was done recently in Florida when Gesher Tzedaka’s Hospitality Suite was dedicated at Jackson Towers. Hospital administrators, department hea...
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Community Articles/Education
Parents of the community have spent a lot time worrying and searching for special education programs for their 5-year-olds who have aged out of preschool programs, yet are not quite ready for the kindergarten or pre-1A classes in their local yeshivahs.
“I am having such a difficult tim...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Multiple tournaments were run on a recent cloudy Sunday to raise money for Gesher Yehuda, a community school founded 14 years ago by Claude and Jack Setton for children with learning differences. Each student is provided with an individual education in order to learn at his or her own pace. The sch...
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Community Articles/Sephardic Culture & History
At the 14th annual commencement of Gesher Yehuda, held in Bnei Yitzhak, you could feel the love and warmth the school possesses as they honored the tremendous accomplishments of the graduates.
Alan Maleh was the host for the evening. In opening he said, “I am honored to be the emcee for ...
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Community Articles/Technology
There are many good reasons to have a personal website, especially if you're seeking employment, or are in any profession where it would be useful. Think of the Internet as a street down which potential employers or clients will stroll. Your presence on the web is like having an office on Fifth Aven...
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Community Articles/Health
One hundred years ago, Americans didn't worry much about keeping fit. In those days, 40% of the population was reaping and sowing, herding and mowing its way through life on pre-industrial farms. In coastal cities men were loading and unloading ships from dawn to dusk without a crane in sight. Build...
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Community Articles/How to Improve
Most of us know when things aren't working in our couple relationship. We may feel hurt or irritated with our partner or have a sense that we're drifting apart. It's easy to know what we don't like. It's much harder to know how to fix it. Here are some suggestions that you can do now to create a mor...
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Community Articles/Health
Kosher consumers have long been accustomed to passing up food courts, restaurants and cafeterias offering everything but kosher food.
Now, thanks to robotic retailing, these consumers are relishing hot kosher food at airports, hospitals, stadiums and shopping malls where brown-bagging was on...
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Community Articles/Environment
How to Keep Everything a Little More Chilled Out
Whether or not you really know what it means, you've definitely heard the term Global Warming. It may have been during that dreadful 8th period science class, in the weather report on ABC News or even on the Academy Awards when G...
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Community Articles/Health
The back-to-school bell will be sounding soon. As a parent, you want to help your child get off to a good start for the school year. The place to begin is here, where you can find a selection of healthy tips for boosting your pint-sized pupil's physical and emotional well-being.
The obesity epi...
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Community Articles/Community Events
Israeli music blared from speakers on the cement floor. Special chocolates from Israel were scattered across the picnic table, beside Israeli drinks and flags.
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Community Articles/Community Events
Recently, GoKosher.org held its first annual dinner celebrating 20 years of koshering America's kitchens. Those attending also paid tribute to over 10,000 individuals and families who have turned kosher over the years.
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Community Articles/Education
A new school year has begun, and with it come a flurry of ambitious resolutions and great expectations.
This is the time of year when all students try their hardest to put their best foot forward. The failures and the difficulties of past semesters are by now a distant memory. The social and a...
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Community Articles/Jewish Holidays
Every year when I make hamentashen I vow, “Never again!” They're so difficult to make and no one really likes them. However, through more ambitious and resourceful friends, I have located some good recipes. They're not easier but the results are worth it. And if all else fails—ther...
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Community Articles/Travel
It seems to be that time of year again. You have finally settled your family back to Brooklyn and are preparing for the holidays. Kids are overwhelmed with homework and a long needed January break is already lingering in your mind.
Where should I go this year? Do you have any great deals?...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Growing up on the streets of Beirut was no problem for Jews until the early 1970s, according to Elie Levy and Nissim Dahan, two native Lebanese Sephardic Jews. Lebanon was a democratic country, had a Parliament, free elections, free press and Jews were citizens, just as people of various ethnic and ...
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Community Articles/Jewish Communities
Simon D. Roffe, my grandfather, was born in Morocco. He and his sisters Helen Beyda, Stella Emsellem, Pauline Tawil, Flora Ingber and Juliette Silvera, and his brother, Maurice Roffe, grew up in the French part of Casablanca and attended the French public school, Lycee Lyautey, the same school where...
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