Dear Gen Zers, We need to stop being intellectually lazy and afraid. Today, more than ever, we young adults too-willingly allow others to think for us. We outsource our convictions and beliefs to what we see and hear on social media, and we pompously brandish these ideas as our own. A recent survey found that over half of all U.S. teens (ages
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From March 22 to April 7, 2022, fourteen innocent civilians were murdered. Twenty-eight parents will live the rest of their lives without ever hugging their child again. Fifteen children will grow up without their biological parent. Fifty-six grandparents won’t see their grandchild sitting at the dinner table on holiday nights again. Three wives and two husbands will never get to
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On Monday afternoon, a new Sarachek champion was crowned. In front of a deafening crowd at Yeshiva University’s Max Stern Athletic Center, the Valley Torah Wolfpack (#2-seeded) defeated the DRS Wildcats (#4-seeded) 55-45 to win the 2022 Sarachek Tournamnent in four games and capture the Wolfpack’s first Red Sarachek Championship in 30 years. The historic final playoff was action-packed from start to
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Valley Torah moves on to the Sarachek 2022 semi-finals as they defeated #10, Magen David, in an intense matchup Friday afternoon. The Wolfpack started the game off slow, while Magen David (MDY) came out on fire hitting a couple of threes and getting into the paint for a few tough buckets. Valley Torah seemed stalled for the first quarter as MDY reached
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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches the two-week mark, heartbreaking images of the devastation and suffering inflicted by the war reverberate around the world and compound the complexity of the global response to the Ukrainian crisis. In a modern era dominated by media access and technology, the world’s viewers have been given instant awareness and visions of war unlike
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In a game for the books, The Valley Torah Wolfpack arose as the first 16th-seeded team in CIF State history to make the Southern California Regional Finals this past Saturday night. With the Howard Lyon Gymnasium packed with impassioned fans, the Wolfpack won Saturday night’s regional semifinal game against the Millikan Rams by a score of 72-59. VT junior Johny
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There is no manual for the biggest and most popular job in the world: parenting. It is up to each parent to decide how they will raise their child, and although they might have role models and some guidelines, for the most part, parents are learning how to be good parents as they get more experience parenting. According to the
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The cool, crisp air lingers throughout the sunshine-filled pasture.The calm lull of fat cows wafts across the Lilly-filled hills.The majestically-colored pedals flow along crystal-clear streams.The waterlily. The ferns. The deep, rich smell of early spring. I stare at my computer.I shut it off, get into my stone-cold bed, and go to sleep.
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In this week’s Parsha, when Hashem speaks to Mosheh, He uses four phrases of “redemption”: Vehotzaiti, Vehitzalti, Vega’alti, and Velakachti. The Netivot Shalom explains that these phrases represent the four different redemptions that took place. Hashem first “took us out” of the corruption and immorality of Egyptian culture, which they had been bombarded with for hundreds of years (the first redemption). The second stage was to “save them”, each person
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Since the start of 2021, inflation, coupled with an insubstantial increase in the median American family income, has caused stress to many people. The current inflation rate sits at 6.2%— the highest it has been since 1990— and the price of certain essential goods, like gas, have risen significantly higher than that. As of December 18th, 2021, the national average
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