Accomodations/Housing • Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman’s Migdal Ohr organization has arranged summer camps for about 7,000 people in 22locations. The attendees are staying on school campuses with dormitories. The camps were originally intended to...
Our Sages tell us that HaKadosh Baruch Hu sets in place the cure prior to the blow. The story of Purim, in which Esther was ensconced on her throne before Haman could set into...
Unless the unexpected happens, the time has come for Europe’s remaining Jewish communities to pack up and call it quits. Norway’s leading daily published an op-ed by Jostein Gaarder, one of Europe’s most celebrated...
Here’s an interesting idea to share with you, based upon a number of anniversaries — and the adventures of a broke Canadian. First of all, August 1 was the first anniversary of the release...
Sometimes it all comes down to a single story. Even an entire war. Many hundreds of us stood cheek to jowl in a Los Angeles shul on Sunday for a neighborhood prayer gathering. The...
Profound and complex ideas do not the most memorable speeches make. In reaching the crowd, the speaker is better off framing simple, straightforward ideas in effective language. Think Gettysburg Address. British Chief Rabbi Sir...
Only one voice of optimism carried over last week’s sustained background of sadness and despair. Jonathan Rosenblum, writing in Yated, cobbled together some of the positive consequences that have emerged from the current war...
Since childhood, we have been taught how to behave. We have been trained well in the arena of do’s and don’ts. We have also been taught which emotions are appropriate and which are not....
I had to rub my eyes as I tried to absorb the news. Prime Minister Olmert could not be that insensitive. But no matter how many times I rubbed, the story remained the same:...
At times like this, one wants to show support for the Jews in Eretz Yisrael, and often does not know how to go about doing so. My sister-in-law Bracha Rosenblum, who runs a small...
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