On Thursday nights the Staums have “Shaarei Torah carpool.” Our son Shalom is in ninth grade in Yeshiva Shaarei Torah, and we have the pickup

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Frequent readers of my column will know that I don’t really follow politics. And the same goes for shul politics. But just this week, I

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