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Pesach: Then and Now

By dvora

Today, over half of world Jewry resides in Israel. Despite wars, terrorism, economic boycotts, and isolation by detractors, Israel continues to thrive-- the realization of visions foretold long ago

Lessons In Emunah / From the Paper

The Wings To Fly

By dvora

One daughter flew in from the UK for a mere 50 hours – quite an amazing feat!

Book Reviews / From the Paper

Title: Halakhic Morality: Essays on Ethics and Masorah by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By dvora

The Rav begins his project with an in-depth examination of the first four mishnayot of Pirkei Avot, raising topics such as the sources of ethics, power and persuasion, elitism and democracy, educational philosophy, freedom and coercion, among others.

Lessons In Emunah

The Cycle Of Life Continues

By dvora

As it turned out, despite recovering sufficiently and hopeful of having more children, I never did.

Lessons In Emunah

A Get-Well Present From The One Above

By dvora

During the past year I especially enjoyed looking at a website of a hotel in Monticello. Living near the beauty and calm of the water really appealed to me.

Lessons In Emunah

Good Things Come in Threes

By dvora

There are people who come over to help us give the babies a bath. We have all learned to do this in assembly line fashion. We could not do it all alone.

Columns

SPEAK OUT NOW !

By dvora

Thursday, Jan. 12 at 12:30 PM a protest supported by dozens of organizations including the ZOA, the NCYl, Stand With Us, and Aish Center will take place at the French Mission to the UN, 885 Second Ave

Interviews and Profiles

Why Moving The U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem Is A Big Deal: An Interview with Keep Jerusalem founder Chaim Silberstein

By dvora

But moving the embassy alone will not guarantee the future of Jerusalem; there are imminent threats facing Jerusalem demographically, security-wise, and in other ways.

Features On The Jewish World

The Sparks Of Judaism Come Alive In Belarus

By dvora

Two and a half decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Belarus is still in many ways a communist country.

Lessons In Emunah

The Refuah Before The Maka

By dvora

Baruch Hashem all worked out well and they are doing both fine recuperating now.

Lessons In Emunah

Counting Time

By dvora

My daughter was in a state of shock. How could this be? How would she and her husband cope?

South Florida

Anticipation Builds For South Florida Chanukah Festival

By dvora

Chanukah marks the birthday of Chabad of South Broward. The organization runs over 45 programs and agencies.

News & Views

Leading Candidate For Defense Secretary Draws Concern In Pro-Israel Community

By dvora

We have got to find a way to make the two-state solution that Democrat and Republican administrations have supported – we have go to get there.

Lessons In Emunah

A Trip To Grandparents Saves The Day

By dvora

After their short rest upstate, catching a few short hours of sleep, the father and son-in-law started the trek home.

Lessons In Emunah

Passing The Torch

By dvora

I explained to him that Hashem does not give a person something to deal with that they cannot handle.

Lessons In Emunah

Winning Ticket #675349

By dvora

I teach our students that nothing happens by chance and certainly that includes a raffle drawing. Hashem is running the world and everything that happens in it.

Lessons In Emunah

Just One Tekiah!

By dvora

Blowing 30 times (the minimum amount to fulfill the mitzvah) for every Jewish patient, literally took the wind out of me.

Terrorism

Suspect In Manhattan Bombing ‘Radicalized’ By Trips To Mideast

By dvora

According to the Associated Press, the FBI looked into Rahami two years ago after his father called with concerns that his son might be a terrorist, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Terrorism / Politics

Claim: Administration Secretly Transferred $1.7 Billion To Iran To Keep It Out Of Terror Victims’ Hands

By dvora

The administration agreed to pay the $400 million it conceded it owed Iran, plus payment of an additional $1.3 million in interest on that amount.

Lessons In Emunah

Unshakable Faith

By dvora

One must be honest and straight in business dealings and in any interchange involving another person, no matter what his color or creed.

Guest Blog

A Red Carpet Welcome

By dvora

When I mentioned we had just made aliyah, everyone proceeded to dance around the table singing the words, “V’Shavu Banim LeGevulam.” (The children shall return to their borders)

Features On The Jewish World

The Nozyk Genizah Of Warsaw: Historic Torah Fragments Discovered In Poland

By dvora

A few of them looked to be over five hundred years old due to some of the variant letter shapes and tagim (crowns) that are no longer used.

Op-Eds

Will Europe Refuse to Kneel like the Heroic French Priest?

By dvora

In Europe these days you will find not a single rally to protest the murder of Father Jacques Hamel. The day an 85-year-old priest was killed in a French church, nobody said "We are all Catholics".

Op-Eds

Memo To Obama: ISIS Is A Symptom, Not The Problem

By dvora

Obama talks about terrorist--while never referring to them as Muslims--like they’re misguided youths who need more time with community organizers such as the young Barack Obama.

Lessons In Emunah

Mitzvah Brings Mitzvah

By dvora

Somehow, though I loved being in Israel, I didn’t feel that way at all.

Politics / Elections

Kaine’s 2007 Appointment Of Jihad Supporter Draws Renewed Criticism After VP Pick

By dvora

“Our party has a long tradition of being pro-Israel, and being pro-Israel doesn’t mean we agree on everything, but we’re friends, we’re allies, we’re partners and to the extent we have disagreements we try to work them out productively,” Kaine said.

Features / Obituaries

In Memory of Albert (Anshel) Klass

By dvora

His life was an example of Torah, middos and humility in action.

Politics

Sustaining Israel’s Friends On Capitol Hill: NORPAC’s Mission – and Missions – in Washington

By dvora

While the efforts did not lead to the result that was hoped for, the work was not in vain.

Israel

Does The Israeli Family Have A Future? Notes from the Ramle Conference

By dvora

Gil Ronen, founder of the Femilistim pro-family organization, posited that the above examples, and others, are driven by nothing less than a Communist agenda, and that feminists in Israel have, wittingly or not, bought into a wide-ranging campaign to destroy the family unit.

Obituaries

Elie Wiesel Remembered As ‘One Of The Great Moral Voices Of Our Time’

By dvora

Wiesel was criticized by some in the Orthodox community for what they viewed as his rejection of faith in God after the Holocaust. But Weisel, who studied Jewish religious texts daily throughout his adult life, resented the allegation.

Op-Eds

Sybaritic West Surrenders to Islamists

By dvora

The clash of civilizations has turned into a war between those who cry, "We will not give up our lifestyle" and those who sing, "We desire death more than you desire life."

The Courts

Jewish Lawyers Declare “Lawfare” On BDS Movement

By dvora

Gammill urged taking advantage of the laws that are already are on the books, and advised university students to be aware of the policies and governing rules on campus so that they can determine if the rules are being violated.

Lessons In Emunah

Cherries, Anyone?

By dvora

Mommie was distressed because praying for the welfare of her dear family was the foundation of her belief in HaKodesh Boruch Hu, whom she served everyday of her life in innocence and in purity.

Analysis

Out of Touch

By dvora

The surrender of Jerusalem will never satisfy the Islamists; it would only embolden them to continue their battle for dominance over Israel and ultimately the entire world.

The Courts

Can Lawyers Help Solve The Agunah Crisis?

By dvora

Lewin said that today every time he visits Israel, he is asked to visit the Rabbinical Court to discuss cases of Israeli husbands who have absconded to the United States without giving their wives a Get.

Lessons In Emunah

A Meeting Made In Heaven

By dvora

Pinchas told his friend how he had felt that he would need to be with someone he knew to help him and his mother through a very difficult Shabbat. Hashem granted him and his mother this chesed.

Features On The Jewish World

Volunteering In Poland Over Pesach

By dvora

Katowice was the birthplace of both Chovevei Tzion and Agudat Yisrael. Before the Shoah the city had a Jewish population of more than nine thousand.

Op-Eds

Scapegoating Their Own Jewish Community

By dvora

Israel’s Jewish-American detractors represents both the divide among American Jews and Israelis, and a trend in US among millennials away from Israel and towards the Palestinians.

Israel / News Briefs / Holocaust

PM Netanyahu's Yom Hashoah Speech at Yad Vashem

By dvora

Following is the address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve (4 May) of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

Lessons In Emunah

The Family Of Man

By dvora

Baruch Hashem, I have plenty of family in Israel, but Miriam’s host was not “family” per se, though her host would differ with me on this fact, rather someone whose family had an impact on me over 50 years ago!

Analysis

The Israel-Bashing Industry's "Intellectuals"

By dvora

These novelists not only hold a deep irrational hatred but are instrumental in attacking not only Israel but the Jewish people.

Israel / US / Politics / News Briefs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Speech at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2016

By dvora

The full text of Netanyahu's speech to AIPAC - including the videos.

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