Style & Living

Dear Alice,

Any tips on how to avoid cheating on my diet? No matter how much I try to control myself I end up giving in. Any suggestions?

Recap: Yonah has a hunch Ben may be at the Freedom School. He goes there frantically looking for Ben and finds him hunched in a corner crying bitterly over the loss of his brother.

Parents of children with special needs face unique challenges in raising their children. One such challenge is the question of what to do when a child with special needs turns 18, the legal age of adulthood. It is during the few years after a child turns 18 that the services and programs associated with the public education system end and are replaced by different benefits targeted toward adults. Managing the transition from services for minors to adult care presents one of the greatest challenges for parents of children with special needs. There are a number of paths parents can take to ensure that their adult child is best provided for in the future.

Special to the Queens Jewish Link

 Irving Goldstein, 98, a lifelong Yankees fan and World War II veteran, will be honored at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, September 17.

This pasuk appears in the beginning of Parshas Ha’azinu. This theme comes up over and over in our tefilos. It is mentioned in the tefillah Ana B’koach where it says “k’vavas shomreim,” watch them like a pupil (vavas=pupil). It is mentioned again in the hosha’anos on Sukkos recited on Shabbos, which are titled om netzurah k’vavas, a nation guarded like a pupil. In the Shabbos zemer Dror Yikra written by Donash ben Labrat, it says v’yintzorcheim k’mo vavas.

Dear Alice,

Baruch Hashem, I have so many simchahs to attend lately! Aside for having to get out at night, I find them to be a major diet sabotage! Any tips??