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What is daas Torah? Should one wear techeiles? What should be our attitude towards the medina? Why do chazal seem to change around different stories in Tanach, particularly ones about great people sinning? And would you like to try ice cream on your pizza? A blueberry waffle with a scoop of ice cream? A little strawberry in your ice-cream smoothie? Some waffle with your M&M’s?

The Music Vs. hit the high notes at the Margeret Teitz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jamaica, Queens, to bring the holiday spirit to its young-at-heart residents. We sang our favorite Chanukah and holiday songs for Jewish and non-Jewish patients ­ putting smiles on the faces of all around. Singin’ and schmoozin’, the eight of us, Lander College and  Yeshivas Ohr HaChaim men, had a fantastic time at our first ever event.

It can’t be easy entering the financial sector in 2012. Recent Lander College for Men/Lander College for Arts & Sciences alum Josh Mandelbaum graduated with a class who’d been hitting the books throughout our country’s longest economic recession in decades. Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Occupy Wall Street, the duration of President Obama’s first term—it happened while Mandelbaum plugged away at earning his Finance degree, all the while hoping his path on the other side would be clear.

The group in Far Rockaway went to two homes and spent many hours dismantling cabinets so they could get to the drywall and then breaking up and schlepping the dry wall out.

This past Saturday night Lander men brought their hidden talents to light.