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A Happiness Guru’s Tips for Stay-at-Home Sanity

How are you feeling? Tal Ben-Shahar, the Columbia University lecturer and “happiness guru,” assumes you’re feeling a lot worse than you were six weeks ago. And that’s OK: The author of “Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment” wants you to know that feeling bad is good for you, as long as […]

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Imagine ‘Good Night Moon’ as a Book from the Bible

Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, Cohen spends far more time these days reading children’s books to his 13-month-old daughter. But with a spark of comedic genius and perhaps a little quarantine-induced imagination, he put the […]

UJA-Federation Adds $9 Million for Covid-19 Relief

New round of grants for vulnerable families, front-line workers.

De Blasio blasts Williamsburg funeral, Israelis mark Independence Day under curfew

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