Recap: While Yishai is visiting and his brother is away, his sister-in-law goes into labor and Yishai has to go out in a snowstorm to get the midwife. Miriam gives birth to a baby girl. Yishai is still trying to find a way to talk his brother and sister-in-law out of following Aaron Burr and his notorious scheme, but they are still set on following him.

Recap: Yehudis has supper alone with Miss Gross, because her father had to go to help his mother. She finds out that Miss Gross was also adopted. In the meantime, there are scary noises outside; when she opens the door, she sees a man leaving. Miss Gross says he was the man who wanted the journal. Miss Gross stays for Shabbos because Yehudis is afraid to be alone. They start reading the journal to see if there is a clue of why the man wants it so badly.

 Equilibration - a term used by Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Oversimplified, equilibration is the balancing of a child’s current understanding of the world with new information as it arises.

The Jewish Orthodox Women’s Medical Association (JOWMA) is proud to host its upcoming Second Annual Symposium in partnership with Yale School of Medicine and Yale Medicine. Following its inaugural symposium in January 2020, JOWMA received overwhelmingly positive feedback for the high quality medical presentations and opportunities for learners at all levels, including physicians, trainees, medical students, and pre-med students.

 Transferring one’s home to another person or persons, subject to a life estate, has been a staple strategy of elder law planning for a very long time. Medicaid planning typically involves an individual divesting himself/herself of assets in order to become eligible for long term care coverage via the Medicaid program at some point in the future.  Often, when engaging in Medicaid planning, one is faced with negative tax consequences when transferring assets directly to others.