23 Feb Getting to Know NY Mets Ace Pitcher Jacob DeGrom

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Mets ace Jacob deGrom talked to the media for the first time last week from Port St. Lucie. The two-time Cy Young Award winner talked about the Mets busy offseason,...

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23 Feb HAMANTASCHEN

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INGREDIENTS: 4 eggs 1 cup sugar 1⁄2 c oil 3⁄4 c orange juice 1 tsp vanilla 5 cups flour 2 tsp. baking powder Fillings: Apricot, Prune, Raspberry, Chocolate Chip, Cookie Dough, Lemon Curd, Smores – fluff, chocolate chips...

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17 Feb HALACHICALLY SPEAKING: MATANAS L’EVYONIM

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During the days and weeks before Purim the mail is full of letters requesting matanas l’evyonim. In this issue we will discuss which people one has to give to, how...

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17 Feb IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: WHY DID ESTHER NOT REFUTE HAMAN’S ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE JEWS?

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“I wouldn’t belong to a club that would have me as a member.” -- Groucho Marx “The modern Jewish maxim is Incognito, ergo sum, ‘I am invisible, therefore I am.’”...

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17 Feb LISTENING TO OUR GEDOLIM: AN ANCIENT PURIM MESSAGE

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Megilas Esther is an exciting repository of contemporary advice. This is revealed to us through Esther’s request to the sages, “Kavuni l’doros – Affix me for all generations.” Although Esther...

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17 Feb ISSUES PERTAINING TO PURIM DURING COVID-19 (2021)

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The practice is to read Parshas Zachor with a minyan from a kosher Sefer Torah on the Shabbos before Purim. If one is unable to do so, they...

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17 Feb SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN THAT DOING THIS IMPROVES HEALTH AND BRINGS GREATER HAPPINESS, BUT OUR RABBIS KNEW IT LONG AGO…

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Milton Friedman, the great Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the University of Chicago, had a very simple suggestion for how to identify a person or institution’s priorities. Many people...

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16 Feb PURIM- THE POWER OF SILENCE

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The mazal of the month of Adar is Dagim. The Klausenberger Rebbe zt’l said that this month, which is represented by fish, is a month of happiness, since while lions...

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16 Feb IS THERE A MITZVAH TO REJOICE IN ADAR?

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I. No Mention of Adar  The Gemara (Ta’anis 29a) famously says that when Adar begins, we increase joy. While this saying is often quoted, standard codes omit it. Rambam (12th cen.,...

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16 Feb SEUDAS PURIM

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The Rema 695 says there is a mitzvah to be marbeh in seudas Purim. Any meal a person eats on Purim that is lichvod Purim is included in the above...

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