by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman When the New Year arrives in America, the traditional greeting is “Happy New Year!” And it’s accompanied by music and dancing, cheering crowds, drunkenness, exploding balls atop Times Square, the New Year’s Eve party, and the hangover the morning after. The Jewish way of marking the New Year is, to the
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by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman We should not be surprised to see an upward surge in the average age of synagogue-goers in the next few weeks. That’s because of a study just released by researchers at the Hebrew University which correlates regular synagogue attendance with longer life. The H.U.-affiliated Israel Gerontological Data Center (IGDC), tracked 1,811
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