To Believe by Yagel Oshri
As the war passes the 6 month mark, the message of this song is one we all need to hear right now. Nobody knows how long all of this will last. But we need to try to open our hearts, and believe.
Why this Elderly Man Visits Injured Soldiers Every Single Day by Rabbi Paysach Krohn
I have a dear friend who’s a rabbi in Boca, and he brought 25 members of his shul to Israel for three days. They went to the war front. They went to the houses of people who were displaced. And then they went to Tel HaShomer Hospital, the biggest hospital in Israel. Tel HaShomer has […]
Matzah-Baking in the Warsaw Ghetto
On this tense Shabbat, I found comfort and perspective in the following story by Avraham Handel, former manager of “Shop Schultz,” a Warsaw-Ghetto factory owned by German war criminal Fritz Schultz and his partner to make Nazi uniforms etc. using Jewish slave labor. “It was right before the final Pesach of the Warsaw Ghetto, and […]
A Long-Awaited Wedding
It’s right before Shabbat in Jerusalem, and I’m trying to figure out what to post to provide some hope and chizuk regarding the tense situation in Israel right now. And I realized the most powerful message of hope I can give is from the equal-parts beautiful and moving wedding I attended yesterday, a very different […]
A Royal Wedding
Up until we moved neighborhoods 8 years ago, for over a decade Josh davened at the Slonimer shul in Meah Shearim every Shabbat. And his best friend among the Chassidim was Rav Raphoel Berezovsky, the Rebbe’s oldest grandson, in line one day to become the Slonimer rebbe himself. When Raphoel invited us to join his […]
Opening the Eyes of the Blind: One Soldier’s Miracle (With English Translation)
Prayer works! As the months pass let’s make sure to continue praying for our soldiers. I’ve been thinking of this soldier every morning when I say, “Blessed are You, our Lord, King of the universe, who opens the eyes of the blind.”
My Chabad Heroine, Rebbetzin Perla
This past Saturday night, Josh and I went to meet Rabbi Zalman and Perla Zaltzman, co-directors of the Brock University Chabad House who are visiting Israel this week. We know Rabbi Zalman and Perla through Josh’s sister, Zipporah, who spent this year as a sociology professor at Brock. Zipporah isn’t halachically Jewish and wouldn’t usually […]
The Eulogy of Hani, Joe Lieberman’s Youngest Child: “You Were the Best Husband, Father, Grandfather”
So powerful and beautifully expressed. The eulogy of my friend, Hani Lowenstein. May Hashem comfort her and all her family.
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