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Ozempic and weight loss injections – wonder drugs or a failure of our generation?

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Is therapy good or bad? Has the mental health industry lost its mind?

103

Real Estate Syndications: Quick easy buck or risky pot luck

104

Extremism – What causes Chareidi extremism? Is it a bad thing? What about Hilltop Youth extremism against Arabs?

105

Teaching our children about the dangers of camp (and life) | Lacetop Sheitels | Voting in Halacha

106

What should we think about – and what should we teach our children about – non-Jews and the non-Jewish world?

107

Assassinations and Targeted Killings in Halacha – Donald Trump, Mohammad Deif, etc.

108

Halacha: Can an aging forgetful leader be replaced? | Should you allow your daughter to go out with a boy who smokes or vapes?

109

Supporting a son or son-in-law in learning – is it a good investment?

110

What Happens to Kids When Parents Fight

111

Electricity on Shabbos - Are you really keeping Shabbos? | Is there a difference between a Ben Torah and an Orthodox Jew?

112

Learning Torah when it’s nearly impossible

113

Shemiras Einayim – Halachos, Chizzuk and Stories: the Vayimaen phenomenon

114

Conflict with the In-Laws – what causes it, how to deal with it

115

Un-Lavish Living – why are we embarrassed to live below our means?

116

Neurolinks and Shabbos, Alexa and Shabbos, Electronics and Shabbos

117

Achdus - does “Achdus” mean I am supposed to embrace Jews I really don’t agree with?

118

Pesach – Great Divrei Torah for your Seder and beyond. Plus, lessons for today from Lavan’s attempt to destroy K’lal Yisroel

119

Revisiting Bachurim in the IDF: Is Shevet Levi Patur from Milchemes Mitzvah? Are all Bochurim Shevet Levi?

120

What are our “Yeshiva bochers” struggling with nowadays?

121

Everyone should be a shadchan – how to set up a shidduch

122

זכרון לנצח – Preserving the memory of Fallen Soldiers Through Posthumous Retrieval of זרע for Procreation

123

Balancing אמונה and Service: The Haredi Dilemma in Military Conscription and Torah Study Commitment | Scaling Tradition: Reevaluating the Chazon Ish's Conscription Exemption in a Growing Community | Study Time Required for to be מקיים והגית בו יומם ולילה

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Frum on the outside and empty on the inside - why are some of our best girls struggling with Yiddishkite?

125

Avoiding the #1 reason for divorce - how to stay connected with your spouse and not drift apart

126

The Brisker Rov zt"l and Medinas Yisroel | Rav Shach zt"l and the IDF (צה"ל) – What did they really hold?

127

Getting over our fears - in dating, marriage, religious observance, of failure and more

128

Raising unspoiled children in a spoiled world

129

The Shulchan Aruch of war

130

Dealing with traumatic times – how to dig out of a rut

131

What’s really going on in the Gaza battlefield. In Memory of Yakir and David HY”D – “Chavrusas in life, Chavrusas in death, Chavrusas in Olam Habah”

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Amazon in Halacha

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Of course there should be Hakaras Hatov to the IDF soldiers. A response to a small minority who think otherwise. Does Torah-learning fully protect us, or is an army necessary?

134

Is Israel an “occupier” of Palestinian land? Who owns “from the River to the Sea”?

135

Zionism – Is today's Zionism the same movement that caused so many religious to leave their roots and become irreligious?

136

Daas Torah In Halacha and Hashkafa

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Is “Zionism” a bad word? Where do Satmar and Neturei Karta disagree?

138

Rally or not to Rally? "Chazir Treif" or Kiddush Hashem

139

Neturei Karta – Is Hatzalah allowed to save them on Shabbos? | Halacha Perspective on Warfare

140

Antisemitism at Harvard and elite universities – how could such smart people be so stupid?

141

Prisoner Exchange in Halacha | Hear from a brother of one of the hostages

142

Guns in Shuls | Burying the Kedoshim – Hear from the front lines

143

Israel at War – Halachos of warfare, “collateral damage,” prisoner swaps, refusing medical treatment to terrorists, and much more

144

עת צרה היא ליעקב וממנה יושע – The Torah outlook and our responsibility

145

Practical Sukkos and Daled Minim Halachos – Seven Fascinating riddles

146

Making 5784 into “THE YEAR”

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מי אנכי שאזכה להתפלל – The Halachos and beauty of Tefillah – The decorum in Shul

148

מי יחיה מי ימות Community organizations dealing with life and death issues daily and some of the שאלות that arise

149

Conflict in marriage – how to fight effectively

150

Exclusivity or Community: The dilemma of school selection policies | The love of the Tosher Rebbe ZT"L

151

Navigating the Halachic landscape of vacation

152

LGBTQ+ and “Pride Parades” – How is it impacting us? Should we explain it to our children?

153

Jewish Influencers: The Facts The Fears The Responsibilities

154

TISHA B’AV All year round – The plight of mature singles and divorcees in our community

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Women Singers – Is it preferable that women attend a performance by a male or female singer?

156

After the BAN - Revisiting AI

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HOT DEAL OR HOT AIR – Ponzi Schemes Proliferating – The Halachic, legal, and monetary ramifiactions

158

Segulos – Do they really work? Are they mutar and advisable or ineffective and prohibited?

159

Subway Chokehold - Daniel Penny VS Jordan Neely through the lense of Halacha | AI Paskening II

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Can AI Pasken ? Will Artifical Intelligence ever replace Rabbonim?

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“Living the Dream” – Spending Beyond Our Means

162

The Shabbos Elevator Controversy

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Baalei Aveirah in our midst – How to we deal with them?

164

What’s Shana Rishona about? Should it be spent in Ramat Eshkol/Yerushlayim on the parents’ tab?

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Miscarriage in Halacha

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Organ Donation in Halacha Is it an obligation, a prohibition, or a choice?

167

Is it good or bad that many young men don’t have a “plan” for parnassah? Should they have one?

168

The most common Pesach Shailos answered by the world’s leading Rabbonim – Hear some new fascinating Shailos

169

How not to go to jail

170

What makes for Effective Dating?

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Pesach - Does Medicine need to be Kosher L'pesach? | Hand Matzah VS Shmuah Matzah - at what expense? | Going to hotels for Pesach

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What are the Halachos of a Halachic State? What happens if the government in Eretz Yisroel is run by Frum Yidden?

173

Is there any reason to wear a HAT for davening anymore? Does a YARMULKE suffice? Why are only chasidim wearing GARTELS?

174

Looking out for Shemiras Einayim - How to deal with the scourge of pornography

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Kashrus in home establishments | How do you know if you're really eating Kosher?

176

Is Kovea Ittim only for the wealthy and brilliant?

177

Whom should you marry?

178

Adoption in Halacha

179

Does yeshiva prepare us for life-after-yeshiva? Should it?

180

Women’s role in society - Has our Halachic attitude towards women shifted over the years?

181

To discuss or not to discuss - That is the Question

182

Drug and alcohol use in our high schools – how big a problem is it? What can be done?

183

Chasunah Halachos & Minhagim in all Kehilos | Eight Chanukah Riddles - Win a Chanukah gift !!!!!!

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Seudas Shabbos – Eating out by others who have different Kashrus standards than you | Kiruv – Who should you and who shouldn’t you invite to your home?

185

Abuse and Abuse Coverups in Our Communities

186

Taking One’s Life in Halacha

187

Life Before Divorce – How do we stop the upward trend of divorce in our communities?

188

“Being in the box” – have we made the “box” into a coffin? Is “the derech” too narrow?

189

Hear from the wife of someone who has SSA – Is there life after divorce?

190

Mental Health in Halacha – Learn how to recognize it and deal with it

191

Do we need to be a shmata when dealing with difficult people?

192

The Kashrus scandal in the (non) Kosher Chinese Express in Manalapan Revisited | The court's decision regarding YU - What options do they have? | When a religous school hires a Transgender teacher what is their recourse? | Transgender in Halacha

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Dovid Lichtenstein gives keynote address at Kinus Hashluchim

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The Kashrus scandal in the (non) Kosher Chinese Express in Manalapan | The New York State Board of Regents vote regarding Yeshivos

195

Quick Retirements – Should it be our goal to retire as quickly as possible? Is retirement a good idea?

196

Are my Tefillos really worth anything? Does Hashem really listen to me? Powering up our Tefillos

197

Next year in Uman/Yerushalayim? Is it about time we brought up Reb Nachman’s Kever to Eretz Yisroel?

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Back to School - Do we need to adhere to all school rules? If we don’t, can we sign the school handbook?

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My child was not accepted into any school!!! School Acceptance Policies - Discrimination

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DUI in Halacha