From the COLlive inbox: An exchange between my brother-in-law and a Rosh Yeshiva at a Thursday night farbrengen made me realize a recurring theme that has surfaced for me and many fellow bochurim. Full Story
“There’s No Such Thing as a Trusted Adult”?
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From the COLlive inbox: "Several days ago, I received a phone call from a close nephew of mine who is a good Yeshiva bochur. I was surprised that he was calling. But when I heard the panicked fear in his voice, my social worker's antennas went up." Full Story
Excuse Me, I Have Actual Anxiety
From the COLlive Inbox: "A term I never heard when I was growing up has become normal. I hear the question over and over, what’s wrong with today's kids? Why so much anxiety?" Full Story
If They Can Have It, Why Can’t I?
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From the COLlive inbox: "What will convince me and my friends to maintain a standard that the generation above us clearly does not? They told us what to do in school but don't show it in practice." Full Story
Rabbosai, Excuse My French?
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From the COLlive inbox: “Too often, I encounter them in casual conversation, or perhaps at the wheel of a car after a shortstop. Clearly, things have changed and not for the better. But we are better than this.” Full Story
No, I Don’t Have an Answer
From the COLlive inbox: We'd rather not have to deal with the problem. We want to forget it and put it as far away as possible. We just don't have strength to 'deal' with it. But, can we really be quiet? Full Story
About That Conversation You ‘Overheard’…
A response to the letter from an "anonymous bochur" about girls saying they don't want their future husbands to spend time at Shabbos farbrengens in shul, instead of being home with the family. Full Story
A Conversation I Overheard on Kingston
From the COLlive inbox: “On a walk down Kingston following an energizing shabbos that brimmed with Chassidishe farbrengen, I got stuck behind two girls and was privy to their conversation.” Full Story
Learning Practically Ended at Yeshivos Last Week
From the COLlive inbox: A Yeshiva bochur writes about a reality that parents don't know about, the hanhala doesn't deal with, and the bochurim themselves engage in without a choice. Full Story
If Only We Would Spend Our Money Locally
Op-ed by Rabbi Yehoshua Werde: I was recently speaking with a Crown Heights businessman and he told me how a promising deal with a fellow Jewish person fell through despite his bid being the lowest. Full Story
There’s a Doctors Crisis in Crown Heights
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From the COLlive inbox: A Crown Heights mother was sitting in the doctor's waiting room for her appointment and came to a realization about a problem that has just become worse with a recent passing. Full Story
We Must Do More To Protect Our Children
Article by Rivkah Bloom: “I've been watching. I’ve been waiting. I’ve been hoping that the stunned, disgusted reactions would transform from feelings and discussions of books to manifested action.” Full Story, Video
Dovid Efune to Revive the Famed ‘New York Sun’
Dovid Efune, who transformed The Algemeiner into an active media outlet,has acquired The New York Sun newspaper with partner Daniel Rosen. Founded in 1833, Efune will revitalize it online. Full Story
Speaking the Unspeakable
Shliach and licensed therapist Rabbi Avremel Blesofsky of New Jersey on the proper response to the disgraced author accused of serial abuse and the proper way to support those who have been hurt. Full Story
We Are Becoming Increasingly Polarized Over Vaccines
Article by Rabbi Raphael Aron: "Ironically, until now Covid prevented families from being together. Now, tragically, it is the vaccine that is preventing family and friends from having the contact they desire as the community is becoming increasingly polarized over the issue." Full Story
Can Shadchanim Be a Little More Precise With Us
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From the COLlive inbox: "Inconveniences are part of this stage in a young person's life and we understand this, but there is no need to make someone go through all this bother and anxiety in the name of 'courtesy.'" Full Story
It’s Just One Date, They Keep Insisting
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From the COLlive inbox: A young woman who has been in shidduchim writes about the insistence of people that she just go on one more date with a prospective person she knows she isn't clicking with. Full Story
What Has Become of Us?
Op-Ed by Shmuly Goldman: We are a wise people, and G-d fearing, and learned, and kind, and appreciative. So it’s so perplexing that when it comes to one specific area, suddenly we are lacking. Full Story
COLlive.com’s Top Stories of 5781
Ivanka Trump's visit, crush in Meron, collapse in Surfside, the second Hatzalah-Thon, the first Tenathon, airline drama, a highway reunion, a Lubavitch and Satmar reunion, architectural plans for 770 and a wife's lasting tribute. Here are the most-read articles on COLlive.com of this past year. Full Story
Picture of Rebbe Accompanies Jared Kushner’s Op-Ed
An image of the Rebbe accompanied the op-ed of Jared Kushner, adviser of former President Donald Trump, urging the Biden Administration to take advantage of historic peace deals of the Abraham Accords. Full Story
NYC Mayoral Candidate Promises Vaccines For Brooklyn Jews
As opposed to Bill de Blasio, his hopeful successor Kathryn Garcia promises to "prioritize vaccine access" to Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg and repair relations with the frum Jewish community. Full Story, Video
What Students Will Remember More Than Tests
"Here's what students will remember more than the marks they received and more than the knowledge we imparted," Rochi Schtroks responds to "When Grades Fail Us" and the comments on it. Full Story
Will You Take the Covid Vaccine?
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Your option: Israel announced that 703 residents of Kfar Chabad have been vaccinated against Covid-19. If the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines were offered to you today - would you take them and why? Comments
The Elections and Our Actions
Article by Rabbi Shimon Raichik: What the polls and the results of the 2020 presidential election can teach us about our actions in the service of Hashem. Full Story
I Was in a Pinch, So I Called the Nearest Shliach
From the COLlive inbox: Yeuda Stell, a property manager from Coral Springs, Florida, was in a race against the clock so he called the nearest Shliach in the area and was shocked by the response. Full Story
