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Steelers ‘Mensch’ Zach Banner To Donate Part of Gameday Check to Tree of Life
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(Sports)
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Pittsburgh Steeler Zach Banner announced Monday that he was donating a portion of a game-day check to Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue, the site of the mass shooting in October 2018.
“I’m crashing ...
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Created on 24 December 2020
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The Year for Books
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(Editorials)
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... While we always love all the wonderful books we receive and have the opportunity to review and highlight here at The Jewish Link, this year we appreciate our authors the most. It’s not just Faygie Holt, ...
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Created on 25 November 2020
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Faygie Holt Energizes the Jewish Children’s Book Market
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(Features)
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... Times” and “The Baker’s Dozen” in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Jewish girls from homes that shied away from secular literature had little new material to read. Faygie Holt decided to revitalize this underserved ...
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Created on 25 November 2020
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Monsey’s Jews Will Not Be ‘Cowed’
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(New Jersey)
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... of the Rottenberg residence was a particularly powerful moment.
“This shows that despite the fear, they continue to adhere to their faith,” he said. “They won’t be cowed to change.”
By Faygie Holt/JNS.org ...
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Created on 02 January 2020
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Yachad’s Annual NJ Gala to Celebrate HS Seniors and More
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(New Jersey)
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Things will be a little different at this year’s Yachad New Jersey Gala on Jan. 4. Yes, there will be speakers and adult honorees, but there will also be the inauguration of a new chesed fund and ...
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Created on 18 December 2019
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Women Leaders Meet at OU Leadership Summit
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(Features)
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Last week, 100 women of varied ages, 56 communities or geographic locales and representing the spectrum of hashkafot (backgrounds) within Orthodox Judaism engaged in networking, formal and informal ...
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Created on 29 May 2019
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Livingston’s Suburban Torah Celebrates 50 Years
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(New Jersey)
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... the rabbi added. “You have automatic friendships from the moment you move in.”
Faygie Holt, now in her fifth year at the shul together with her husband, said, “We are a diverse community religiously, ...
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Created on 06 March 2019
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Essex County Stands in Solidarity With Tree of Life Community
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(Features)
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Over 2,000 people gathered at Livingston’s Temple B’nai Abraham on Sunday morning to find comfort and show their solidarity with Jews nationwide. The rally came in the wake of the deadly shooting ...
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Created on 01 November 2018
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The Achdus Club Is at It Again
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(Features)
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Reviewing: “The Accident,” by Faygie Holt. Menucha Publishers, Inc., 124 pages. 2018. ISBN 978-1-61465-427-8.
“The Accident” by Faygie Holt is the third installment of the bestselling Achdus Club ...
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Created on 30 November 2017
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Chabad Provides Comfort and Expresses Gratitude in Manchester
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(Israel/World)
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(Faygie Levy Holt/chabad.org) As police continue their investigation into the terrorist bombing outside the Manchester Arena in England that killed at least 22 people on May 22—some of them children—and ...
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Created on 25 May 2017
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JWE Sponsors Fourth Annual Business Conference
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(Business Spotlight)
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On the eve of launching her newest business venture—the fashion brand Avec Les Filles—designer Joyce Azria addressed more than 200 Jewish women business owners and offered them words of chizuk (strength), ...
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Created on 23 February 2017
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‘Trouble Ahead’ Provides Lessons for Young Readers
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(Simcha Link)
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... if they treated her as meanly as she had treated Hili.
By Faygie Holt
(Excerpted from Holt’s latest novel, “Trouble Ahead,” the second in the Achdus Club series)
Faygie Holt is the author of the ...
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Created on 15 December 2016
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Driving in NASCAR or Reading From the Torah: It Takes Training
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(Features)
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... “It’s an almost unrivaled sense of accomplishment because of the spiritual aspect of reading the Torah. When you kiss and close the Torah after your aliyah, it’s a beautiful feeling.”
By Faygie Levy ...
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Created on 30 June 2016
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14.
Room to Grow
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(New Jersey)
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SSTC’s Expanding Membership a Sign of a Community on the Rise
Michelle Ansel had spent the majority of her life on Staten Island. She grew up there, married there and was raising her family there. ...
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Created on 10 March 2016
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Teen Table-Tennis Star Chooses Shabbat Over Olympics
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(Features)
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She’s only 14, but earlier this month, Estee Ackerman became a member of a very exclusive club when the Shabbat-observant teen participated in the U.S. Olympic trials.
Her sport? Table tennis, ...
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Created on 25 February 2016
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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 2015 Reflections
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(Editorials)
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... have been possible. Thank you to Ellie Wolf, Sharon Mark Cohen, Rachel Jager, Faygie Holt Levy, Eileen Bergman, Sherry Kirschenbaum and Leah Gottheim.
A special shout-out to my daughter Hannah, who had ...
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Created on 31 December 2015
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Livingston Author Publishes Debut Children’s Book
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(New Jersey)
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Faygie Holt has been writing for as long as she can remember—newspapers, magazines, blogs and, now, a children’s novel. Her book “The New Girl” is geared to girls in grades two to four and is available ...
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Created on 03 December 2015
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Friendship Circle Walk—Birthdays, the Maccabeats and Friendship
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(New Jersey)
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Eliana Rosenberg celebrated her 8th birthday with a few thousand friends, as she spent her big day at this year’s Friendship Circle walk. She enjoyed cupcakes, a rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” ...
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Created on 12 November 2015
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Jewish Woman Entrepreneurs: Success Is Doing Hashem’s Work
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(Business Spotlight)
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Oftentimes, when women get together the talk quickly turns to babies, children and household tasks. But that wasn’t the case as several hundred, primarily Orthodox, women gathered for the 2015 Jewish ...
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Created on 29 October 2015
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Workshop Aims at Empowering Newly Divorced Parents
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(New Jersey)
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Navigating life as a divorced, single parent is never easy, but the challenges are compounded when one is part of the Orthodox Jewish community, in part because of the community’s strong family focus ...
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Created on 10 September 2015