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Village Of Lawrence Provides Community Update On Woodmere Club Development and Litigation

After extensive discussions and diligent efforts, the Village of Lawrence is pleased to share that it is optimistic a favorable...

A Love For Lawrence

On Tuesday, June 17, the Village of Lawrence will hold its annual election for Trustee. Things have quieted down quite...

Car Explosion And Vandalism Rattle Woodmere Community Amid Rising Security Concerns

By Yochanan Gordon 5TJT Staff Writer WOODMERE, NY—A car explosion in the early hours of Monday morning, June 9, has...

Women’s Only JV Spring Basketball

HALB vs. MDY. MDY led the entire game up until the last few minutes. Emmy Wiener on HALB was unstoppable, scoring...

The New Face Of Poverty In Israel

By Rabbi Zvi Friedma This year, my visit to the Five Towns was profoundly moving. As always, I felt the...

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

Zeesy and Tova Wolfson rocking it at Camp Simcha Menny enjoying a burger at the canteen at CGI in Parksville...

What Happens If You Become Incapacitated Without A Plan?

Most people associate estate planning with preparing for death—who gets what, and how. But the truth is, planning for incapacity...

DATING FORUM

Question We are two fathers from Skokie, Illinois writing to you today about our daughters. Both of our daughters are...

Reflections On The Texas Tragedy

Summer camp season usually conjures up memories of idyllic settings, joyful activities, and an experience that can enhance the wholesome...

He Said/She Said

DISCLAIMER: The following column is a composite of several different experiences I have had with clients. It does not depict...

Why We Dismiss The One Thing That Keeps Us Alive

I didn’t go into the breathwork class looking for some big transformation. I went because I’m curious. I try new...

Israel returns bodies of two hostages from Gaza

Terrorists murdered Judy Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai at Kibbutz Nir Oz, then carried their bodies to the Strip. (June 5,...

How A Rabbi And PhD Gained The Most Insight From His Mother: Review of “Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Powerful Torah ideas from a Mom’s parting words”

By Rabbi Elie Feder, PhD, $19.99 (196p) ISBN 978-1961602670 Review by Michele Justic The greatest scholars, philosophers, and scientists of...

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

The Friediker Rebbe, Rav Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, disembarking in New York while visiting from Europe in 1929 Sometime in the...

DATING FORUM

Question My story is going to shock you because it’s highly unusual for something like this to happen for a...

DATING FORUM

Question I have been dating for a long time and it always fizzles out. That’s how every dating relationship ends...

DATING FORUM

Question I was single for a long time, and I always promised myself that when I get married, I would...

DATING FORUM

Question When an older man wishes to be set up with a lady of childbearing age, the only thing that...

Dating

Question At what point does a person walk away from a relationship? My shadchan introduced me to a beautiful woman five years...

I, Too, Am The Future Of Education

By Sarah Meira Schlager, teacher at Shulamith High School for Girls and SKA High School for Girls At my graduation...

Yeshiva University Leads with Strength, Support, and Solidarity Amid War

“This Is A Moment For Unity And Responsibility” Yeshiva University Leads with Strength, Support, and Solidarity Amid War As Israel...

Understanding Israel: YU Global Launches New Online Course on Zionism and the Jewish Return Home

Two thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, the State of Israel stands as one of the most...

Touro’s New York Medical College Forms Affiliation With Mt. Sinai Medical Center In Miami Beach

Touro’s New York Medical College (NYMC) has formed a new academic affiliation with Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach,...

Touro Finance Alumni Network’s Third Annual Event Connects Generations Of Finance Professionals

Night of networking and mentorship close to 100 alumni and students together to build relationships and careers in finance and...

HAFTR Excels At YLMUN 2025

By Natalie Bellehsen and Leah Kammerman  By Natalie Bellehsen and Leah Kammerman  The third annual Yeshiva League Model United Nations...

What’s In Your Junk Drawer: Top 10 Essential Items To Help You Manage Your Kitchen

By Naomi Ross Everybody has that drawer in their kitchen. You know what I’m talking about, the infamous “junk drawer,”...

Summer Cooking While The Kids Are Away

By Naomi Ross A fully stocked refrigerator may be the norm for keeping our families well-fed throughout the year. But...

Uncorking The Wines Of Israel: Introducing IWPA

Israel has emerged as one of the fastest-growing winemaking regions in the world, with its diverse climate, rich soil, and...

Summer Cooking: 25 Ideas To Kick Off Summer!

By Naomi Ross With its leisurely vibe, summer is a time of “non-cooking.” Most of us want to avoid a...

Pour Your Heart Out This Summer and Beyond with the Most Passionate Wines from Psagot Jerusalem Vineyards

Pour Your Heart Out This Summer and Beyond with the Most Passionate Wines from Psagot Jerusalem Vineyards Why not offer...

200 Industry Professionals Unite at Annual OU Kosher Conference Focused on Innovation and Global Kashrus Issues

For over 30 years, OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinators (RCs) and Rabbinic Field Representatives (RFRs) have convened for OU Kosher’s Annual...

School Board Shakeup

The Lawrence District School Board selected longtime board member, Heshy Blachorsky as the new president of School District #15. The...

All The Hostages

By Larry Gordon Ben Shapiro made the point on Fox News Monday morning that the war or the crisis or...

Sisters Helping Sisters

So much of our lives is about dealing with the unexpected and unanticipated situations that life throws at us. Such...

Two States

By Larry Gordon The misunderstanding that spilled out of the news cycle last week was that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...

Golf, Tefillin, Boca

The headline could be part of the question: Which one of these things does not belong? Actually, it’s a complicated but at...

War, Peace, And Trump

By Larry Gordon If this is a war with Israel, you might be interested in knowing when exactly it all...

There’s No Place Like Home

I was contacted this week by a news outlet and interviewed about the impact of war on the people of...

How To Avoid Family Disputes Over Your Estate

One of the greatest fears people have when creating an estate plan is that their family might end up fighting...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Visits ZAKA HQ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a solemn visit to the national headquarters of ZAKA, Israel’s predominant search, rescue and recovery...

Netanyahu Visits MDA Headquarters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Magen David Adom (MDA) National Headquarters in Ramla. There, he thanked Israel’s national emergency...

Timing Is Everything! Facelifts: When To Consider One—And What Kind Is Right For You

Before After Dr. B. Aviva Preminger, MD, MPH, FACS In an era of injectables and noninvasive treatments, many patients wonder—when...

A Day In The Life Of An Acupuncturist

I am a perfectionist to a fault. While that may make it challenging for my family on a day-to-day basis,...

Random Amenities

I don’t know what goes into a hotel’s decisions about what to provide their guests. But most of them somehow...

Charitable Giving Through Your Estate Plan

If supporting causes you care about is part of your legacy, your estate plan can serve as a powerful and...

Premium Pergola Adds Beauty And Space To Your Home

Summertime and the living is easy. Basking beneath glorious, sun-drenched skies, hosting summer soirees on magical moonlit evenings: it’s the...

Strivright Celebrates 25 Years Of Miracles, Milestones, And Memories

On the evening of May 14, 2025, over 500 guests gathered at the stunning El Caribe Country Club for a...

Migdal Ohr: A Cause Worth Sweating For At Philly’s Tough Mudder Endurance Event

This past weekend, a team of passionate, driven (and somewhat crazy) individuals woke up early, laced up their sneakers, and...

Who Is The Meltzer?

By Yochanan Gordon Winter and summer aren’t just defined by digits on a thermometer—they usher in entirely different mindsets. Winter,...

Understanding Khamenei

By Yochanan Gordon A joke is told about a reckless repeat offender who was constantly pulled over for endangering others...

Waiting For (Moana) Moshiach

We are in the midst of a heatwave. The thermometer in my car hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit each of the...

Gimmel Tammuz Reflections

By Yochanan Gordon This is the thirty-first time we mark Gimmel Tammuz, the date in 1994 when it felt as if...

A New Voice Has Risen

By Yochanan Gordon Eurovision is billed as the largest music competition in the world. Although it first debuted in May...

Despite Recent 12-Day War With Iran, Nefesh B’Nefesh Expects 2,000 North American Olim During 2025 Summer Season

Despite Recent 12-Day War With Iran, Nefesh B’Nefesh Expects 2,000 North American Olim During 2025 Summer Season Thousands of newcomers...

Netanyahu: Victory over Iran opened window for ‘broad’ regional move

The campaign against the Islamic Republic will also help rescue the hostages held in Gaza and defeat Hamas, the premier...

Yeshiva University Leads with Strength, Support, and Solidarity Amid War

“This Is A Moment For Unity And Responsibility” Yeshiva University Leads with Strength, Support, and Solidarity Amid War As Israel...

An Exceedingly Good Land

With the exception of a few articles at the start of the war, I have not really written anything since...

Netanyahu gives thanks at Western Wall following US attack on Iran

JNS STAFF (June 22, 2025 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday prayed at the Western Wall, Judaism’s second-holiest...

Would anyone but Trump have done it?

JONATHAN S. TOBIN (June 22, 2025 / JNS) Donald Trump appears to have fooled both his friends and foes. And he...

A Time For Gratitude

By Sivan Rahav Meir “How many times can one woman say Birkat HaGomel?” That’s what Dr. Yehudit Nachum said to me...

Understanding Israel: YU Global Launches New Online Course on Zionism and the Jewish Return Home

Two thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, the State of Israel stands as one of the most...

Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

Rabbi Berel (Bernard) Levy of OK Kosher Rabbi Chaim Bruk with Howie and his family “Sushi, Cheesecake, and the Ten...

Yachad New York Gala Celebrates Inclusion And Honors Community Partners 

Chani Herrmann, associate director of Yachad, presents the IVDU Family Award to the Trauring Family  Yachad, a Division of the...

Oleh Spotlight: Sruli Fruchter Brings Thoughtful Jewish Conversation to the Heart of Jerusalem

Sruli Fruchter’s story reflects a deep connection to Judaism, Zionism, and a mission to foster thoughtful, future-focused conversations for the...

Legendary Satmar

Dear Editor, In his letter of June 27, Rabbi Heshie Billet takes the 5TJT to task for allocating front-page coverage to the...

Affront And Center

Dear Editor, The 5TJT issue of June 13, 2025, featured a front-page photograph and lead story about Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, the current...

Yamim Baim: The Historic Jewish Music Festival with Ishay Ribo, Avraham Fried, Zusha, and ShmuelJUMP Yamim Baim

Inside Yamim Baim: The Historic Jewish Music Festival with Ishay Ribo, Avraham Fried, Zusha, and Shmuel Ishay Ribo Courtesy Yamim...

Then And Now

 These are the songs of days and years and decades gone by. Songs by iconic composers like Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach...

A Silent Mountain Of Hope And Tears

Jewish history unfolded across many legendary mountains. Our story is etched into numerous mountaintops of joy and revelation. On a...

MKs back deals with Syria, Lebanon, but normalization could take time

Jerusalem “must make sure that there’s no invasion potential all around its borders—that includes Syria,” said Benny Gantz. JNS STAFF, AMELIE...

The Big Beautiful Bill: Delivering for Long Island and America

When history looks back, it will mark the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as a crucial victory for working...

Alina Bonsell Slams Julie Menin: “Condemn Mamdani Already!”

Alina Bonsell, Republican candidate for New York City Council in District 5, is calling out incumbent Democrat Julie Menin for...

Trump-Netanyahu Dinner Analysis

Trump-Netanyahu Dinner Analysis According to ZOA National President Morton “Mort” Klein, the Trump-Netanyahu dinner in Washington highlights the exceptional level...

RAA Marks Rosh Chodesh Tammuz With Inspiring Event Bridging Past, Present and Future

RAA Marks Rosh Chodesh Tammuz With Inspiring Event Bridging Past, Present and Future Presenting of the newly published Sefer Or HaMeir,...

I Miss The NINA (No Income, No Asset) Mortgage

Every year at the Pesach seder we ask: “Why is this night different than other nights?” And so, with this is in...

Don’t Bypass The Railings!

I regularly drive around different sections of town to see what homeowners are doing to spice up their homes. Now,...

Stuff You Only Think Of In The Summer

Catchy little title I put in there, huh? Well, I was thinking that we’ve been walking around for the last...

Make Sure To Warranty All Repair Work

Maintenance is an ongoing chore that homeowners have to stay on top of to keep their properties in the best...

Here’s To New Experiences 

We’ve all had our experiences and stories about dealing with a municipal building department office when trying to get certification...

NYC Council Crazies Do It Again

It seems that the present NYC Council sits and imagines all the various ways they can create a chaotic situation...

HAFTR Students Reflect and Celebrate a Successful Year

By: Ben Lipton Before the school year came to an end, HAFTR High School students and faculty took a well-deserved...

HAFTR Excels At YLMUN 2025

By Natalie Bellehsen and Leah Kammerman  By Natalie Bellehsen and Leah Kammerman  The third annual Yeshiva League Model United Nations...

MTA Inducts New Members Into The National Honor Society

By Mayer Schwartz (’25) MTA held its annual ARISTA induction ceremony, where a select group of rising seniors were named...

What Teens Want Their Parents To Know

What Teens Want Their Parents To Know By: Mia Kaplowitz, Leila Makowsky, Tamar Jansenson These reflections were written by Shulamith...

Sisters Helping Sisters

So much of our lives is about dealing with the unexpected and unanticipated situations that life throws at us. Such...

Golf, Tefillin, Boca

The headline could be part of the question: Which one of these things does not belong? Actually, it’s a complicated but at...

The Mamdani Problem

The much-discussed Democratic primary to select a candidate to run for mayor of New York City is now behind us....

War, Peace, And Trump

By Larry Gordon If this is a war with Israel, you might be interested in knowing when exactly it all...

Faith’s Role In A Breakthrough Moment

The past week has been both exhilarating and dizzying. Each day brings a surge of euphoria. With Hashem’s help, the...

Growing the Fringes (Part 2/2)

In Part I of this essay, we explored the words tzitzit and gedilim, offering a possible way of understanding the nuanced difference between...

Pinchas: An Asinine Essay

Part II In Part I, we discussed the words chamor (domesticated donkey), pere (wild ass), and aton (a female donkey). In this installation, we continue the...

More Than Just The Chicken

The Divrei Chayim, Reb Chaim Halberstam of Tzanz, zy’a (d. 1876), was beloved for his generosity and famous for his righteousness. The poor of...

Shabbat: Understanding Rest And Creation

The Torah’s first chapter describes Hashem’s creation of the world. After detailing His creations on each of the six days,...

Multitudes Of Amud HaYomi Learners All Over The World Begin Masechta Pesachim This Week

HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, Dirshu Eruvin Siyu By Chaim Gold Did you know that if you start Masechta Pesachim this week with the...

Emergency Backup Chickens

One of the things no one tells you about having chickens is that once you’ve built an entire infrastructure in...

Becoming Torah

Are Torah-observant Jews different or do we just do different things? How personally transformative is our faith and practice?  Klal Yisrael was...

Beyond The Chuppah: The Quiet Reasons Marriages Break Down And What We Can Do About It

Beyond The Chuppah: The Quiet Reasons Marriages Break Down And What We Can Do About It As a therapist, I’ve...

Tokef HaTalmud: Battling the Maskilim in Slovakia

A most fascinating sefer entitled Tokef HaTalmud (The Power of the Talmud) was published in 1849 in Ofen (Buda), Hungary. The sefer was written in response...

Life’s Special Moments: In Conversation With Stephen J. Savitsky

BANNER ROCHELLE MILLER Stephen J. Savitsky is on a mission to teach people about an important but often overlooked mitzvah, that...

“Beechnut’s Removal of Kosher Certification Shortsighted and Unfortunate”

For More Information, Please Contact Eda Kram (718-854-4450) May 28, 2025 “Beechnut’s Removal of Kosher Certification Shortsighted and Unfortunate,” Kosher...

Jerusalem Love Song

By Toby Klein Greenwald I wrote this poem as a college student in Jerusalem, inspired by a date I had...

Lessons From The Ohel

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence Last week, after a friend found herself in the thick of some dating drama, we...

Visiting Day: Survivor—Catskills Edition

Visiting Day: Survivor—Catskills Edition By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence  I don’t know about you, but my kids’ summer plans are...

The Kids Of Summer

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence “Hi! I know it’s a hectic week for you with getting the kids off to...

A Crash Course In Grandparenting

By Malkie Hirsch Magence I’ll be the first to admit it: it still feels surreal to go from being the...

Widowhood—Shaken And Stirred

By Malkie Hirsch Magence The first time I tasted what it felt like to experience sudden loss was when my...

Living Life Offscreen

By Malkie Hirsch Magence It usually starts the same way—a casual question tossed out over a conference room coffee refill...