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Shabbat Shalom Articles

July 01, 2009
Worried About Unemployment?
Jordan B. Gorfinkel

Looking for a job and there's not much out there? Maybe it's time to find something to fill your time.

June 24, 2009
The Kindle and the Jewish Question
Chava Willig Levy

Pepsi. Cheerios. Verizon. Apple. Google. Mustang. Tropicana. Have you ever wondered how brand names come to be?

June 23, 2009
Shopping For Home
Baila Rosenbaum

I’m a city girl. I live on one of the lower floors of a twenty one story high-rise. My urban home is graced with great landscaping, pleasant playgrounds and even some cheerfully noisy birds that sing outside my window in the early morning. But, hey, this is still Lower Manhattan and for all I know some of those birds are sporting miscellaneous earrings and a few decorative tattoos. I was ready for an infusion of suburbia.

June 18, 2009
Deafology 101
Jim LaSala (Photos)

“Awesome” and “the best Shabbaton ever”. Or so said the teenage attendees... The parents were amazed at the role models and thought it wonderful for their children to see that they can pursue whatever path they choose. Their hearing need not limit them.

June 11, 2009
Trying out the ‘Burbs
Jordan B. Gorfinkel

Trying out the 'Burbs? Thinking about leaving New York City?

June 10, 2009
Living With Dorothy
Chana Mayefsky

When I moved in with Dorothy, my friends were in shock. We were just graduating college and most were planning to live in the more popular destination of Washington Heights, with other young singles... Mostly, though, the astonishment was because I was 22, and Dorothy, or Mrs. Hilf, as I call her, was 95.

June 10, 2009
Deathbed Visits With the Living
Debra B. Darvick

I heard through the shul grapevine that she was dying of cancer and had gone to her daughter’s out of town. Does Emily Post have a chapter on reconnecting with dying acquaintances? Her husband had been languishing for going on seven years and during our eighteen months together Mrs. S. often asked, “Why?” She said that she had never believed in God. The Shoah’s long shadow settled between us. And then she went on to tell me what had changed her mind.

June 04, 2009
Nice Community - But is there Pizza?
Jordan B. Gorfinkel

Looking for affordable housing? Thinking about leaving New York City?

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