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Late last Sunday, as the Super Bowl was drawing to a close, there was a blast of euphoria reminiscent of Entebbe, when Israel announced that IDF forces had carried out a successful raid in the city of Rafah and rescued two of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7. If you don’t recognize the […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence I’m guilty of being the last woman to voluntarily sit in shul on a Shabbos day unless I have to be there for say, my son’s bar mitzvah or a friend’s simcha. Only then will I stop in to see the inner workings of what makes up one of the […]

In the end, it wasn’t even close. After weeks of seemingly endless negative television commercials promoting Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican-Conservative Mazi Pilip, Suozzi defeated …

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Sometimes a war or another type of national disaster breaks out and the reaction is intense and immediate. Everyone mobilizes to support the cause and huge sacrifices are made. And then, over time, the enthusiasm starts to wane until it eventually dissolves into a thing of the past. Israel’s current four-month war with Hamas is […]

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence When the British author Douglas Murray asked Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, z”l, what it means to be a Jew, his answer was: “To be a Jew is to have a sense of history. To be a Jew is to have a sense of memory.” It means that although we as […]

After a long day of work, I decided to sit down and take a break with a cup of coffee while searching the web for some new trends that have nothing to do with selling real estate—in other words, something completely unrelated to the reality of life and everyday stress. As I scrolled around, I […]

It was just one storm — but it was a nasty one.

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence I suffer from the almost constant guilt of writing about things other than what’s going on in our world today. Instead, I usually like to stick to what’s happening in my world. To me, that doesn’t mean I’m in denial or that I find myself repeating what thousands of others […]

All of us have had our experiences dealing with building departments and their bureaucratic procedures when trying to get certification for housing. Whether trying to get original certificates of occupancy for new construction or existing ones, or getting certificates of completion for additions or renovations, the bureaucratic process and paperwork involved, not to mention the […]