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No Simple Simcha: The Logistics, Love and Learning of a Blended Family

Deborah Grayson Riegel
06/11/2010
Deborah Grayson Riegel
Special to the Jewish Week

If you actually pay attention at a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, you just might learn something new. Maybe you'll pick up a meaningful nugget of knowledge from the parsha that you've missed in the past. Perhaps you'll discover how you might get involved in the mitzvah project being discussed on the bima. Or possibly you'll get some insights (and eyesights) as to exactly how much shorter this year's hemlines are than last year's.

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Tim Boxer: IDF Chief Introduces His Dream Team

Elie Tahari makes a fashion statement with a contribution to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces; photo - Photo: FIDF
04/01/2010
Tim Boxer
Special to the Jewish Week

The Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, brought 30 of his troops with him when he came to New York in March. He introduced his Dream Team at a Friends of the IDF fundraising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, which was emceed by syndicated radio host Monica Crowley.

“Shalom, y’all,” said Daniel, one of the Dream Team members.

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Burying My Mother Tongue

Studying Aramaic often feels like saying Kaddish — which, fittingly, is written in that language. Yet interest remains strong in this dying, yet holy, language.

05/01/2009
Yona Sabar

Aramaic is my first language. I don’t get to speak it much with fellow native speakers in Los Angeles, where I live now. The number of Jewish Aramaic speakers has dwindled so much that we now quixotically call ourselves “The Worldwide Federation of Aramaic Speakers.” The group would fit in a small room.

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A ‘Shabbat Of Darkness’

04/16/2008
by Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

Still reeling from the shocking deaths of their rabbi and his wife in a fierce house fire last Friday night, the congregants of Young Israel of Scarsdale this week were gathering photos and videos of the couple from their own family albums — taken at simchas and other gatherings — to share with the four Rubenstein children.

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