Spring 2009/5769- Volume 69, No. 3
FEATURES

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To a Jew every mitzvah is treasured; each is a source of delight. Little wonder then that Birkat haChammah, has received extensive treatment in rabbinic literature.

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Holding God’s Hand
By Carol Green Ungar
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For nearly a year now, Simcha Esther (Shari) Gershan has been looking the Angel of Death in the eye and smiling back at him. She’s also been telling the world about it on her Internet blog, and plans to share more of her story in her forthcoming documentary.

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Jay Gold was a high-powered, successful forty-six-year-old Wall Street lawyer with a very warm heart. Four months before Jay was admitted for hospice care to the nursing home where I am the director of pastoral care, he was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer with a terminal prognosis of less than six months.

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Dealing with Serious Illness
By Tova Stulman Ross
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Chronic Humor
By Steve Lipman
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"What do you say to a boy who’s dying?” Lorraine Weiss wondered before she called Jay Feinberg for the first time. “I said, ‘I’m going to tell him a joke.’”

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A new trend finds frum uber-organized women fusing their talents with their religious sensibilities to help Jewish women organize their homes—and their lives.

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We prepare children for all sorts of things in life—a new babysitter, the first day of school, a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, the arrival of a new sibling. Preparation is important because children, like adults, find comfort in knowing what to expect; this same sense of security is critical for a child entering psychotherapy.

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As I write, the world is in the midst of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Generally, the publication of another Haggadah does not generate much excitement; Kohelet’s injunction about the publication of endless books is of particular relevance to the appearance of yet another Haggadah. But The Seder Night is a notable exception.

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ISRAEL
On and Off the Beaten Track in…the Har’el Lookout

DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Letter to the Editor
Stephen J. Savitsky

CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
Gerald M. Schreck

LEGAL-EASE
What’s the Truth About…Ga’al Yisrael?
Ari Z. Zivotofsky

  

INSIDE THE OU
Meet America’s Inclusion Consultants

INSIDE THE OU
I Got My Job Through—OU’s First-Ever Job & Aliyah Fair In Israel Draws Huge Crowd

KOSHERKOPY
Chametz Sheavar Alav haPesach: The Supermarket Controversy
Yaakov Luban

THE WELLNESS REPORT
Pesach Dieters, Take Note: You Can Have Your Potato—and Eat It, Too!
Shira Isenberg

  

THE CHEF'S TABLE
Healthy Passover Pleasures
Norene Gilletz

BOOKS
Miracle Ride: A True Story of Illness, Faith, Humor—and Triumph
Dina Bar-Tov

BOOKS
Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

BOOKS
Everyone’s Got a Story
Varda Branfman

JUST BETWEEN US
Spiritual Investment—Capital Gain
Jay Goldmintz

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