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Passover: Holiday of hope and freedom

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 PASSOVER in Israel is a magical time of year. The winter rains and chilly air are replaced by a flurry of activity and sense

Kudos: Four free Jews who personify Passover

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 24 Every year the IJN salutes people — known or obscure — who bring freedom into our lives. It is alway time to say ‘thank […]

It’s different from procrastination

DOES anyone else have this problem? I only get things done when I’m supposed to be doing something else. Not always, but complication seems to be congenial. Did this...

Chazzan Koll

My relationship with Cantor Isaac Koll and Torah study goes back to my high school days. Before any of us could drive, my sister Mimi and I were in carpool […]

MATZA: Mental Anguish TZviling Alert

PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 Dear Tzviling, Help! Passover is around the corner and I don’t know where to begin. I know I have to get rid of every […]

Religiously boycotting Israel

Ed Husain, a researcher with the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote a surprising piece last week in the New York Times on the Arab boycott of Israel. It was surprising...

The many faces of Jewish theft

MY career as a criminal began one hot summer afternoon when I was six years old and my mother suggested I help her clean out the closets. I was thrilled […]

Some dawns are golden, others are blood red

They laughed at the Nazis, too.? It behooves everyone inside Greece and elsewhere to see the ‘Golden Dawn’ for what it is: a frightening, growing, Nazi-like movement....

Insanity plea is often just an excuse

So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of...

Angel’s tears

THE last time I saw him his health had already taken a turn for the worse. It was after another one-of-a-kind Chuck Vernoff Shabbos, permeated by his profound Torah...