28,284 Men, Women, and Children🕯️🇮🇱
28,284 men, women and children have been killed in terror attacks and while defending Israel. 🇮🇱
Read MorePlease Join LeKedoshim: Honoring Israel’s Fallen Soldiers
Tonight will be my 1st Yom HaZikaron as the mother of an IDF soldier. Maayan is not a combat soldier, but many of her friends are. I am awe-inspired by these 19-year-old boys, their idealism, their good hearts, their selfless determination to give up 3 years of their lives (or more) in order to protect […]
Read MoreYom HaAtsmaut and my Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
On the night of Yom HaShoah I was in a crummy mood. I was feeling down because it was Yom HaShoah and on top of that I’d had a blow up with a family member at the end of Pesach. I later found out (from Rabbi Nivin who speaks with many people as a life […]
Read MoreYom HaShoah: Survivor Returns to Auschwitz to Put on Tefillin
93 year old Auschwitz survivor Arek Hersh, returned to Auschwitz for Yom HaSHoah and put on Teffilin in front of the gates of hell – where he was imprisoned during the Holocaust! Am a yisrael Chai!!! #NeverAgain!!! via @dovforman
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Rabbi Lau and Rabbi Katz: The Sons of 2 Boys from Buchenwald
A few weeks ago I attended my last siddur party for my youngest child. It turned out to be the final siddur party as well for Rabbi Shmuel Katz, who is retiring after 34 years as school rabbi. It was clearly a bittersweet event for him and for me as well. All but one of […]
Read MoreA Lesson from Seder Night by Senator Cory Booker
An inspiring davar Torah on Gam zu l’Tova from New Jersey’s Christian junior senator.
Read MoreA Bride and Groom’s Apartment-Hunting Miracle
I told you a few weeks ago that my oldest daughter, Hadas, made her first shidduch between her university classmate and the son of our close family friends. And this past Shabbat the happy engaged couple came over to say hello. When I asked Hallel and Hovav where they’re planning to live, Hallel told me […]
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