My Interview with Sue Koltai, Mother of Meron Victim Azi z”l: “Our Son Gave us a Job”
In honor of Azi’s 14th birthday, Sue shared stories about her remarkable son and her response to the recent tragedies, from Meron to Surfside.
Read MoreOne Nation Under God, Indivisible–with Surfside
This past Thursday, I visited my daughter’s pre-Army-midrasha in the Golan and didn’t have wifi, so it wasn’t until early Friday afternoon, sitting at a hummus place in Katsrin, that I was finally able to check my phone and read about the horrific catastrophe that had struck Surfside. Tears streaming down my face, I asked […]
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Praying for Surfside
I’m visiting the Golan, but my heart is in Florida, davening for all those under the rubble to be found alive and healthy, please God! Names known (as per Yeshiva World News): Chaim ben Sara Malka bas Sara Rochel Yisroel Tzvi Yosef ben Toiba Tzvi Doniel ben Yehudis Ita bas Miriam Esther bas Linda Moshe […]
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From Soap-Opera Star to Orthodox Jew
This Week’s Interview with Chana Ximena Orozco And please join me next Monday June 28th (at 9 PM Israel/2 PM EST) for my interview with Sue Koltai, mother of Meron-Tragedy victim 13-year-old Azi (at )
Read MoreThe Song in Your Heart from Rabbi YY Jacobson (8-Minute 12+13-Tammuz Video)
I’m posting this incredible story about love and the Lubavitcher Rebbe in honor of the 12th-13th of Tamuz, known as the Chag HaGeula (Festival of Liberation) when the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was officially granted release from his sentence of exile to Kastroma in the interior of Russia. Twenty-seven days earlier, the […]
Read MoreWomen Hungering for Miracles
I took this photo today at the grave of the Zviller Rebbe which draws thousands of people hungry for miracles every Monday and Thursday. Looking at all these candles, I thought of all the infinite yearning that went into them. A candle lit by a woman yearning to become a mother. Another candle lit by […]
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