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Your article (Hamodia Prime, 11 Tishrei/October 10) entitled “Smoking: Are Restrictions Harmful to Your Liberty?” by Faygie Grunfeld was Hamodia at its best. In a thorough, honest and convincing way,…
Every time I read about the talented frum singers in the Jewish community I come away with a deep feeling of pride. “Mi k’amcha Yisrael, goy echad ba’aretz.” & I…
In the 11 Tishrei/October 10, 2019 issue of Hamodia, in the “Holocaust Survivors Speak” section, Mr. Sam Beller mentions, “There was a man living across the street from us by…
An item in this week’s news has caught my attention, with relevance to our approach to tefillah and our perceived acceptance by Hashem. Former U.K. prime minister David Cameron has…
There seems to be a strong sense of bias in your newspaper towards remaining in the EU. There are often chareidi quotes confirming many so-called suspicions of Brexit, frequently without…
Kudos to Hamodia for pointing out what few others have acknowledged, namely that the results of the non-binding Brexit referendum of 2016 were not at all clear and therefore accorded…
I must admit that when I saw the article “Rethinking School Security’’ by Faigy Grunfeld (Prime, September 18) I was skeptical. As an elementary school teacher, I have dealt with…
Could it be coincidence? Just as our attention spans and retention of events diminish, electronic archives expand. One of the hazards of externalizing memory is that it has a nasty…
I greatly appreciated Rabbi Karman’s article, “ Behind the Scenes of Back to School” (Prime, Sept. 4, 2019). As an alumnus and former talmid of Yeshiva Gedolah of Bayonne, I…
Part of me hopes you have forgotten this episode, but part of me needs you to remember. On Motzoei Shavuos in 1990, I broke our engagement. I have been trying…
In the September 4 issue of Hamodia Prime, there was an article by Aryeh Hakohen Katz about an interesting diet that works by interspersing times when you eat and times…
I have a language question for Mordechai Schiller. I noticed a caption under a picture in a recent Hamodia Community section: “K.K. from Yeshivah _____ delivering a chaburah.” Another time…
Your article on loneliness (“Millenial Loneliness”/“The Perils of Loneliness,” Hamodia Prime, Sept. 11, 2019) got me thinking. I recently heard about a mother in my neighborhood with a number of…
Councilman Deutsch raises an important point about the current political climate in the Jewish community — namely that Jews’ disaffection with the Democrats’ various agendas is causing us to shoot…
Recently I was out with a close friend when to my surprise I thought I noticed someone that I had seen a picture of in last week’s Hamodia. I asked…
We’ve been there before. But then, as now, we had to open our eyes to the real danger. In 1892, the Russian government ordered the Volozhiner Yeshivah to teach secular…
Thank you for a very interesting and informative article (“Microbiome Therapies,” by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, August 21, Prime). What I liked about this article was that it honestly admitted something unexpected…
Lichvod the editors of the Erev Shabbos editorials, It is obvious that the Erev Shabbos editorials are as the title implies. They are always a befitting essay “from” the Torah…
After all the investigations into whether Russia interfered in our elections and whether the ads Russia ran on a major social media platform had any affect, a far more profound…
Many thanks to Mendy Hecht for his satire column, which last week (July 17) focused in part on the principal in Boca Raton who couldn’t say the Holocaust was “a…