The name Julia Haart evokes different reactions in our community—all negative. Haart is the Kardashian-wannabe-star of the Netflix series about walking out of the Orthodox

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Last Thursday I told my kids I was going to the Bike4Chai event. “What? You are going to bike over 100 miles? How are you

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Sukkah 25b As you are disembarking from an El Al flight, you notice that the friendly neighbor who sat next to you has left the

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