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	Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Extras 226 Archived Articles Found in Extras Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 09 2011 Just Another Four Days In Monsey, Sans Electricity By Sandy Eller While most New Yorkers spent last week going about their days and enjoying modern amenities likes refrigeration and light bulbs, I was one of the lucky three million people who spent days in the dark, thanks to a freak snowstorm that took down leaf-laden tree limbs and with them, power lines, phone lines and the last vestiges of my sanity. I can tell you from first-hand experience that spending 106 hours without electricity in a house that at times was only a few degrees warmer than the typical refrigerator is enough to try anyone's patience. Read Article 2) Posted Oct 26 2011 Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands Cyprus (continued from last month) By Ezra James Nollet Read Article 3) Posted Oct 18 2011 Found: Long-Lost Holocaust Hero By Hillel Fendel How does an American Jew go about finding the Ukrainian non-Jew who, 65 years ago, saved his mother's life by hiding her in his hayloft for three years? Read Article 4) Posted Sep 27 2011 Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands By Ezra James Nollet Jews wandered back and forth within the Mediterranean Basin, sometimes in flight from persecution, other times returning home to the Promised Land. The centuries-long Arab domination of the Mediterranean created certain preconditions for the social, economic, and cultural development of the Jews. In no other time and place, from the time of the self-governing Jewish state, did the professional structure of the Jewish people take on so many forms. Read Article 5) Posted Sep 23 2011 Torah Live's Mezuzah Presentation - A New Approach To An Ancient Mitzvah By Gavriel Horan Nowadays, Jewish parents and educators must ask themselves how they can present Torah and mitzvot in a way that speaks to this generation. To many youth today, Judaism's rich heritage seems outdated, irrelevant and boring. Read Article 6) Posted Sep 21 2011 A Miraculous Recovery By Sandy Eller Like the arboreal creation whose name he shares, Ilan Tocker is strongly grounded by his roots, yet continually reaches for greater heights. Following a miraculous but lengthy recovery from a brain injury that nearly took his life, the 34-year-old Cedarhurst resident displays astonishing emunah and says his illness has only brought him closer to Hashem. Read Article 7) Posted Sep 21 2011 Rosh Hashanah 5772 Read Article 8) Posted Sep 14 2011 Beth Israel Honors 9/11 Hero Remembering Abe Zelamanowitz It has been 10 years since Abe (Avremel) Zelmanowitz phoned his brother Jack and sister-in-law Evelyn to assure them that he was fine after two planes attacked the World Trade Center. He worked there on the 29th floor as a computer programmer for Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield. But Abe never made it out. Read Article 9) Posted Sep 14 2011 A Requiem For A Critic By David Rhodes Being a critic isn't an easy job. Whether it's about food, music, art, books or wine, a critic must not only give his opinion on the topic of his expertise, but do so in a way that in itself attracts an audience. In the twenty-first century, the power of an individual critic may continue to be diluted as more and more blogs, websites and tweets reflect the opinions of everybody and anybody able to sit in front of a keyboard and type. Read Article 10) Posted Sep 14 2011 Parents Of Special-Needs Children Fear For Future By Sandy Eller Representatives of numerous schools and parent groups serving special-needs children met with New York City Councilman David Greenfield on Thursday, September 1, to discuss continuing efforts by the Department of Education (DOE) to reduce funding to special education programs in the private sector - efforts that many fear are part of a larger plan to close down private schools that service the Jewish community's special-needs children. Read Article 11) Posted Sep 07 2011 Midrash Shmuel's Rosh Yeshiva Visits U.S. By Rabbi Yaakov Klass Recently, I had the opportunity to meet Rabbi Binyomin Moskovits, rosh yeshiva of Midrash Shmuel in Jerusalem's Sha'arei Chesed neighborhood. Rabbi Moskovits was in New York to attend the marriage of a student. While here, he has also been meeting with alumni and current students. Read Article 12) Posted Aug 24 2011 Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Hungary (Part 3) By Ezra James Nollet The social activities of the Jews in Hungary showed a somewhat different picture from those of the eastern neighboring countries. The Jews were the dominant owners and workers in agriculture, and likewise in mining. In trade and transportation the Jews dominated the number of independent enterprises. There was hardly any Jewish working class, since the Jews belonged either to the petit-bourgeoisie or the wealthy capitalist classes. Read Article 13) Posted Aug 24 2011 3,500 Pages Of Vintage Kahane On Amazon By Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter David Fein, a New York native who first encountered Rabbi Kahane in college in the early 1980s, spent over 15 years making trips to the New York Public Library, viewing old Rabbi Kahane articles on microfilm, and compiling those he thought most representative of his weltanschauung. The result is Beyond Words: Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane, 1960-1990- seven volumes' worth of material with over 3,500 pages. Read Article 14) Posted Aug 17 2011 'Aunt Blossom' - A Tribute To Blossom Klass By Mindy Rosenthal Everyone knew Blossom. She was like Cher or Oprah, a unique and large personality who was known by first name only. The polar opposite of a social snob, she was happy to be friends with anyone who wanted to befriend her - from teenagers to the elderly, from the wealthy to the downtrodden. At every hotel she visited, she made it her business to know the waiters' names and to chat with them. Her accumulation of friends and acquaintances spanned her lifetime and she cherished them all. Read Article 15) Posted Aug 17 2011 Looking For The Perfect Match By Amy A. Dubitsky Fair Lawn, New Jersey's Ezra Fineman is looking for his perfect match. He is smart, has brown hair, and a great smile. Ezra is also two years old and is looking for a bone marrow donor. After contracting a severe case of pneumonia at five months old, Ezra was diagnosed with Hyper IgM syndrome, a rare primary immune deficiency. Affecting only one in every one-two million people, the syndrome keeps his body from producing antibodies, leaving him with a heightened susceptibility to infection. Read Article 16) Posted Aug 10 2011 My Last Sermon By Rabbi Naphtali Weisz Last Shabbat, I ascended the pulpit for my final drasha at the Beth Jacob Congregation in Columbus, Ohio, where I have been serving as rabbi for the past five years. I am not moving on to a larger Jewish community; I grew up in Columbus and appreciate the out-of-town lifestyle. Nor am I the victim of "rabbinic burnout." In fact, I deeply enjoyed the rabbinate and believe firmly that it is the most noble and important role in avodas hakodesh. So, why am I giving up my dream job - serving the same congregation where my grandfather, Rabbi David Stavsky, zt"l, was rabbi for 47 years? Because, on August 15, with the help of G-d, my family will be joining with hundreds of others in making aliyah to Israel with Nefesh B'Nefesh. Read Article 17) Posted Jul 27 2011 Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Hungary (Part II) By Ezra James Nollet The adaptation to the prevailing Magyar culture progressed. A rabbi named Isaac Eisik Taub of Nagy Kallo, who arose from the world of Polish chassidism, wrote poetry in the nineteenth century in Hungarian. To this day the Hungarian Jews sing his folkish-worded poem "A Bird." The books of sacred writing were translated into Hungarian, even the tractate Pirkei Avot. In the synagogues, preaching was done in Hungarian. Read Article 18) Posted Jul 20 2011 Justice In The Holy Land: Is It Ideologically Driven? By Adina Kutnicki There is a surreal phenomenon enveloping Israeli society, causing right wing nationalists to pause and contemplate - have they landed in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe? Read Article 19) Posted Jul 13 2011 Innovative Jewish Music By Sandy Eller School is out, the kids are home and as the long summer days beckon, parents find themselves looking for ways to keep their energetic offspring entertained and out of trouble. Thankfully, numerous wholesome Jewish entertainment options abound, but one Brooklyn business has found a unique way to capture the interests of both children and adults for less than the cost of two slices of pizza at your local pizzeria. Read Article 20) Posted Jun 22 2011 Before The Deluge: The Jews Of Hungary By Ezra James Nollet As a result of the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost a portion of its provinces: Slovakia, Sub-Carpathia, the Maramos-Sziget district, Transylvania, the Banat, Croatia, Slovenia, and the so-called mountain lands which today belong to Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria. Read Article 226 Archived Articles Found in Extras Next 20 Articles >
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