FEBRUARY 5, ‘25 // Web: thecommunityconnections.com Email: ads@3712222.com Phone: 845.371.2222 Fax: 845.371.2221 Mail: P.O. Box 261 Monsey NY 10952 5:02 4:50 4:55 5:05 6:22 6:18 6:37 6:34 BILLION DOLLAR SPY CHESS CHANA LEBOWITS CLASSIFIEDS CREATIVITY CROSSWORD CSAY INSIGHTS MAZEL TOV PICTURES PLAN B QUOTE RECIPIES SHORT STORY SUDOKU 222 254 164 267 263 258 170 322 328 332 206 186 342 228 256 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 228 “So, when are you planning on moving back?” my mother asked casually. The question was not unexpected. Still, it caught me o guard. It was the last day of our extended summer vacation, and we were relaxing on my parents’ porch, watching the children play in the endless green back yard. It had been a wonderful interlude, but all good things must come to an end, and our flight back home was the following aernoon. I was already dreading the endless trip with five restless, overtired children. “Moving back?” I sighed. “Believe me, it sounds like heaven. Especially with this glorious back yard. But it doesn’t look like we’re going anywhere for the time being. Aer all, our children are growing older, and they’re all settled. If we were planning to come back we’d have done it a long time ago.” “There’s something special about living in Eretz Yisroel, and I don’t just mean for a year or two,” my husband, Shloimy, added. This was something he felt strongly about, and I hoped it wouldn’t come out the wrong way. “I really feel that our children are growing up di erently, with pure values. Not like today’s kids.” “Not that there was anything wrong with the way we were raised—on the contrary,” I interrupted quickly, sensing we may have crossed a line. “We got the greatest chinuch, Mommy. But things are simpler there. There’s no peer pressure to have the nicest, the best, to upgrade. And so far we’re living our dream life.” And indeed we were. We had been married over a decade, and were raising our three boys and tw community whe children had kno with hand me do Whenever they c and in-laws, the Their cousins, had beautifully midwinter vaca shopping as a pa Back home, in o daughters shared on a high-riser be No one complain Aer all, most of thing. Time passed quic busy. Shloimy lea had an excellent t while I babysat fo Once a year, usua in the summer, m us tickets and tre important for our elderly grandpare myself, these visit drink on a muggy siblings, go out to family at my paren And so the years ‘home’ each yea togetherness. W away from all this secure that our pa Yet as both sets reality slowly beg The Most Important Value 342 Raspberry Sprinkle Cake INGREDIENTS: • 2 Cups flour • 1 Tsp. corn starch • 2 Tsp. baking powder • ¼ Tsp. sea salt • 1/3 Cup margarine, melted • 1 Cup sugar • 1 Tsp. parve yogurt • 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract • ¾ Cup unsweetened almond milk • 1 Cup chocolate chips • ½ to 1 pack (depending on desired flavor) raspberry jello DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat the oven to 350°. 2. Grease an 8- or 9-inch loaf pan. 3. In a large bowl, whisk together, margarine, sugar, parve yogurt, vanilla extract and jello, then add in the flour, corn starch, baking powder, salt and almond milk. Mix until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips, pour the batter into the greased loaf pan. 4. Bake for 55-65 minutes. Don’t let the simple name fool you. This is a delicious, yet very elegant cake, that presents itself as good as it tastes. פרשת בשלח תשפ”ה FEBRUARY 5, 2025 פרשת בשלח נ”הדל וויזניץ: סקווירא: ש”מוצ 72 מינוט / 15 מינוט ערב מוצאי 60 מינוט / 18 מינוט ערב מוצאי THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO; EXERCISE DISCRETION IN THE SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS; EDIT ADVERTISEMENT ADS; AND THE DURATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS. THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS IS NOT LIABLE FOR TYPESET ERRORS. THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DOES NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE KASHRUS OF ANY ADVERTISEMENT, PRODUCT OR ARTICLE IN ITS PAGES. REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. VOLUME 30 #17 Exciting Index Page 69 JANUARY 29, ‘25 68
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