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With OHEL’S Online XTreme Challenge (OOXC),  you can experience the thrill of victory without breaking a sweat! (Courtesy of OHEL) On Sunday, May 19, over

Often we discuss how special it is to meet so many baalei teshuva who have turned their lives around through Judaism. Frequently we told our

This year, on Isru Chag HaPesach, we commemorated my mother’s 10th yahrzeit. In truth, though, we lost my mother many years before April 2009. For

The Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company is proud to lead off its 82nd season with “H.M.S. Pinafore,” one of the most popular collaborations of

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We now return to the fertile topic of “expressions that annoy me,” which is growing ever bigger the older I get. And I’m not just

Few jobs are more demanding than that of the pulpit rabbi. It essentially requires being at the congregation’s beck and call all year long, twenty-four

At this time of year, you can barely turn around before another day related to Israel pops up on your calendar (are your white school