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Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:32:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 https://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/JP-Logo-200.jpg https://www.jewishpress.com 32 32 https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/community/south-florida/south-florida-august-9-2024/2024/08/09/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:23:25 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702476 .]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/businessfinance/money-matters/the-destruction-of-wealth-six-wealth-killers-every-investor-should-avoid/2024/08/09/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 05:23:36 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702473 Surround yourself with people who derive joy from other aspects of life beyond materialism to eliminate the feeling of constantly needing to keep up with friends in your community.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/marriage-relationships/dear-dr-yael-455/2024/08/09/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:23:02 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702466 I know that people really mean well. So next time you pay a shiva call, think before you go - How can I make the person and or people sitting shiva feel more comfortable?]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/an-envelope-from-theresienstadt/2024/08/08/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:12:27 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702277 A collection I acquired recently contained an unusual surviving document, an envelope sent by Leo Baeck from the Theresienstadt concentration camp, to Saly Mayer (1882-1950), leader of Switzerland's Jewry and the head of the Joint Distribution Committee in Switzerland. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/marriage-relationships/secrets/2024/08/08/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:12:15 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702269 It might be prudent to explore why you have kept this secret. Sometimes we are conditioned to be ashamed, embarrassed, and diminished by those who love us best because they worry about shidduchim, or perceived judgment they imagine you will face. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/aliya/curing-the-crunch-medex-fast-tracks-doctors-from-around-the-world-to-work-in-israel/2024/08/08/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:12:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702257 Due to doctors reaching the age of retirement, the aging of the population, and other factors, Israel is experiencing a shortage of doctors which has become more acute since October 7. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/the-link-between-the-jnf-and-tisha-bav-and-other-miscellaneous-tisha-bav-items/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:20:50 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702185 As the sun set over Jerusalem the Golden, reunited at last, Jews of all backgrounds and ethnicities gathered at the Wall on Tisha B’Av for the first time in two millennia. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/community/jewish-community/new-medical-facility-opens-amid-great-fanfare-at-jewish-catskills-camp/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:50:18 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702168 You get near [the campers] and you see their joy. Some of them articulate it in different ways and some of them can’t necessarily, but if you are in their presence, you can feel it, Yeger continued. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/defenders-of-democracy/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 08:20:20 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702071 Is it defending democracy to bring criminal charges against people who never entered the Capitol on January 6 and to invoke farfetched extensions to charge conspiracy and justify multi-year jail sentences to the point where one defendant committed suicide?]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry-anat-coleman/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:55:26 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702098 Jewish tradition recognizes that there are appropriate times to cry and intentionally carves out times for emotional reflection and preparation, emphasizing that life isn't solely about constant happiness but involves growth through allowing and experiencing a full range of emotions. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry-solly-hess/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:54:50 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702095 If we measure strength in holding back tears, we’ve got it wrong. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry-alexandra-fleksher/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:53:49 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702092 Maybe you just have to realize that whatever pain you’re going through in your life right now is existentially rooted to an original pain: the removal of Hashem’s direct presence in the world through the destruction of the Temples. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry-ana-mandelbaum/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:52:46 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702089 Crying is a powerful tool. It is an emotion that Hashem gave us to elevate pain, happiness, sadness, tefillos. May we all be zoche to have our tefillos answered.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry-dovid-m-cohen/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:51:35 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702085 After our meeting, a searing pain gripped me, cutting deep into my soul. The reality of his absence and the passage of time hit me with a force that left me struggling to breathe.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-cry/2024/08/07/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 06:50:46 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=702081 .]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/dementia-diary-chapter-94/2024/08/04/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 09:40:32 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701734 Discussing the conundrum with close friends has helped me to focus on what I do not want. I do not want an evening talking about our marriage and forcing our friends to sit through our stories, no matter how wonderful I may think that they are. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/parenting-our-children/parents-missing-in-action/2024/08/04/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 05:40:46 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701724 There was a time, not too long ago, when being a good parent was the most valued achievement in our community... Today, we pay a great deal of lip service to this concept, but in practice, we allow many other priorities, such as succeeding in our careers, social obligations and self-fulfillment, to compete with the one we profess to cherish most.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/life-chronicles/life-chronicles-438/2024/08/04/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:40:36 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701721 .]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/silver-standards-tchotchke-rings/2024/08/02/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 05:20:48 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701421 These rings appear from time to time in small auction houses that specialize in selling the entire contents of estates, and typically sell in the range of between $150 and $350.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/marriage-relationships/dear-dr-yael-454/2024/08/02/ Fri, 02 Aug 2024 01:20:13 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701413 Relationships are complicated. Children react differently to their parents. Unfortunately in many situations that I work with, the in-law children sometimes influence their spouses to have less derech eretz for their parents. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/a-holocaust-refugees-telegram/2024/08/01/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:07:57 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701344 Two Western Union Telegrams I acquired recently tell the story of one Jew that managed to escape from Poland and some of the challenges he encountered.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/comedy-in-a-time-of-crisis/2024/08/01/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:07:28 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701233 Having the opportunity to look people in the eye and make them laugh when they have gone through so much is powerful, she said. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/marriage-relationships/i-guarantee-it/2024/08/01/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:07:00 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701227 Many couples in your circle will get married and build loving and successful lives together. They are the waves we can rely on. They reassure us and give us hope for ourselves.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/community/jewish-community/a-congressional-blessing-from-rabbi-slonim/2024/08/01/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:07:23 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701219 On July 25, 2024, Rabbi Levi Slonim was the guest Chaplain offering the opening prayer in Congress, the House of Representatives. His invitation was spurred on by freshman Congressman Marcus Molinaro (R – Catskill, Greene County).]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/aliya/new-real-estate-tax-rates-beneficial-for-olim/2024/08/01/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 04:07:03 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701212 https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/who-is-buried-in-yad-avshalom/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:54:56 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701125 While it is now known that Yad Avshalom was built about 1,000 years after the death of the Biblical Avshalom, it is not known who commissioned the monument – although the Biblical account in Shmuel Bet (2 Samuel) suggests that it was built by Avshalom himself, as discussed below. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/community/jewish-community/the-passing-of-a-tzaddik/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:54:16 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700988 He was a fierce defender of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s legacy. Even if someone didn’t think they offended the Rebbe’s reputation, if he thought the person did, you received a phone call explaining the situation from his point of view.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin-gershon-schusterman/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:59:38 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701020 The destructions and subsequent exiles are part of G-d’s divine scheme. His plans are positive and purposeful though we may not understand them now.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin-ariela-davis/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:58:47 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701017 During the Three Weeks, we need to look at our division which led to the destruction of the second Beit HaMikdash, and for which the third Beit HaMikdash is not yet rebuilt. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin-jonathan-i-shenkman/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:57:11 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701014 It's always tempting to play the victim card when something we've worked hard on is ruined. However, throwing a pity party or dwelling on the offender’s punishment is not the Jewish way. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin-cheryl-kupfer/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:56:23 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701011 Ceaseless, persistent negative speech, lashon hara, can cripple, devastate, and destroy a person’s future and is the verbal equivalent of a barrage of missiles that demolishes a building. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin-chani-miller/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:55:24 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701007 It is a day when being part of the klal will supersede being an individual; it is a day of contradictions, an awkward fusion of happy birthday wishes and the start of the saddest time period of the year.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-ruin/2024/07/31/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:54:50 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=701004 .]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/community/jewish-community/fair-lawn-fire-tears-through-beloved-nj-kosher-bakery-and-two-kosher-eateries/2024/07/30/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:46:26 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700902 Shortly after 2:00 a.m. on Friday morning, July 26, the overnight crew at Zadies Kosher Bake Shop felt an unusual amount of heat and smelled smoke. Upon exiting the building into the rear parking lot, they saw smoke coming from the rear of Green Dragon Asian Cuisine, a non-kosher restaurant at the far end of the shopping center. They quickly called 911.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/dementia-diary-chapter-93/2024/07/28/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:15:58 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700704 There is a distinct pattern of behavior for each individual, but even more fascinating is that others with whom we have no contact, who live elsewhere on the globe, eat different foods, have different lifestyles, experience many of these same behaviors. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/parenting-our-children/life-in-a-minefield-helping-the-explosive-child/2024/07/28/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:15:20 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700697 It is crucial for parents to think clearly and stay calm – not an easy thing to do when a child is in the midst of a full blown tantrum, complete with kicking, screaming, and breaking things. Parents should also avoid turning the episode into a power struggle.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/life-chronicles/life-chronicles-437/2024/07/28/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 04:15:10 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700692 .]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/businessfinance/money-matters/living-dangerously-a-theme-for-the-three-weeks-and-investing/2024/07/26/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:20:32 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700339 Investors tend to make drastic decisions when they are feeling scared, greedy, or impatient. Unfortunately, these impulsive moves rarely, if ever, work out. Emotional decisions have no place in the world of successful investing. ]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/family/marriage-relationships/dear-dr-yael-453/2024/07/26/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 02:20:34 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700328 Unfortunately, often parents can raise many children while many children cannot always care for their parents properly. It is so important that those who are suffering have a support group to turn to to help them through this difficult time period.]]> https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/freeing-agunot-after-the-holocaust/2024/07/25/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:56:36 +0000 https://www.jewishpress.com/?p=700206 A series of documents I acquired recently tells one such situation, where a woman who survived the war, but whose husband did not, spent several years dealing with the halachic ramifications that resulted.]]>