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My mother often recounted this story because of the incredible hashgacha pratit.
To date, Yoram has sold hundreds of tallitot that have been given to hundreds of grooms who have appeared miraculously in the girls’ lives shortly after they bought tallitot there.
Esther says that she’s had a few trials in her life and the key to her faith is looking at the positive and not harping on the bad. Something she’s worked on perfecting her whole life.
So along with my gratitude sessions, I decided to be more aware of saying thank you to people who deserve acknowledgment along the way – service providers, bus drivers, and the like – which I’m not always good at doing.
He went with a measuring tape and a good friend, who always agrees to lug furniture home for me, and brought it home.
It was one of the few weddings, maybe the only one I’ve been to, where people weren’t talking to each other or on their cell phones during the chupah.
Animals at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo come from all over the world, and it has recently welcomed an international roster of animals.
He has stunned audiences all over the world with his spellbinding show.
I felt a mission to tell the story of Salonika's Jews so it would be known and remembered.
G-d, in his mercy, will send you little gift-wrapped signs.
Everyone agrees that the most important quality a volunteer needs to have is love.
Eli believes in reincarnation and rectifying the soul and he believes with a hundred percent certainty that this whole episode was part of his tikkun.
So much of our clothing, accessories and technological paraphernalia seem to define us and what we believe and value spiritually – yet, it should be the other way around.
We are called Yehudim as our essence is one of giving thanks.
Three years ago, I wrote about the Alon Hesder unit that had lost seven soldiers in the battle for Beirut during the Peace for Galilee operation, otherwise known as the First Lebanon War. The article was about how Yossi Levy inspired his commanding officer Effi Margi to study Talmud decades after his death, and how […]
He also tries to close the gap between male and female students and advance the girls in math. He also tries to teach them to be good people.
Title: Art of Revelation – A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible Yoram Raanan and Meira Raanan Art is supremely the language of the spirit. Few artists in the Jewish world today better capture the beauty of holiness than Yoram Raanan – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The first time I saw Yoram Raanan's work […]
Some of the animals that are saved, but can't be reintroduced into the wild, are given to Deer Country Park, where Avihu takes care of them.
Being maligned in the international press isn't such a tragedy, what is tragic is the fact that Jews believe these lies and spew negative rhetoric against the only refuge they have should the malodorous winds of anti-Semitism blow in their direction.
It is amazing when you think that these men, women and children, who lived for months or years not knowing if they would survive another day, went on to live into their eighties, nineties – some even became centenarians.
The Jewish people's relationship to trees goes way back as far as the Garden of Eden where man's first mitzvah involved a tree. Maybe that's why Jews are so enthusiastic about tree planting.
For all the good we hopefully do in the world, we often come up lacking; our prayers are distracted, we're a bit short with the beggar, we sometimes slip with our tongues.
Jordan River Village is Israel's only free, year-round, overnight program for children living with life-limiting conditions (serious diseases, chronic illnesses, genetic conditions, special needs).
The yeshiva rents apartments for the boys in the city so that they are also live among the secular citizens.
Have you ever noticed that you have some mitzvah that not only finds you but seems to follow you around?
It's hard to read a book and get up and move simultaneously. But this book, more than any other, did get me to get up and move.
We want to bring Jewish female artists and audiences together.
Simmy Allen, head of the International Media Division of Yad Vashem, says that there are 300 various spellings, variant names and diminutives for Yaakov.
She doesn't want to talk about how she suffered in the Holocaust; she wants to tell me of her heroic act.
Now he was putting his faith only in Hashem and that he knew Hashem could help him.
Whoever doesn't have the courage can read a little bit and then close the book, go to the kitchen and take some ice cream out of the freezer.
Rabbi Rosenblatt is a rabbi in London who is also the founder of Tikun, a chesed organization with many activities and programs.
His art is unique and vibrant, his subjects Torah, Kedushah and Eretz Yisrael.
The memoir follows a year and a half of the travels and travails of Rabbi Hirschprung from the beginning of World War II until his arrival in Japan.
Edy turned around and saw that her sister was trapped underneath the trolley that had rolled on top of her.
It is vital today to educate the Jewish community that cremation is against Jewish law.
With his high energy and commitment to contributing to the klal, Uri looked for gaps to fill.
Honenu is an organization dedicated to providing counsel and defense for Jews under administrative detention – house arrest, banishment from their residence, or jail.
Though the native of Brighton is a serious artist and deep Kabbalist, Langford has an easy air about him and a sense of humor that sets his blue eyes twinkling.
It is the hallmark of the Jewish people to take tragedy and turn it into cause for celebration.
She would notice when people needed, and what they needed, and she did everything she could to fill the void with energy absent in women half her age.
"I wanted to focus on all the people you don't want to look at, the people who are invisible."
This was his true screen test and Azulai passed with flying colors.
Her life circumstances have never defined her or limited her and her positivity is just refreshingly addictive.
I decided I needed to do something to give back.
Rav Yisrael Meir hoped to breathe some religious life into the spiritually-bereft settlement.
"Isn't it enough that the whole world hates us? WHy do we have to hate each other?"
Nissim Menashe 50, a resident of Petach Tikvah, celebrated last Israel Independence Day like most of the country, he had a barbecue with his family. It was a memorable event. He was standing close to the grill as a relative went to light it but because of the wind, the flame ignited the bottle of lighting […]
Erudite and academic, drawing from ancient and modern sources, the book can be discussed at the Shabbos table as well as in kollel.
For those who doubt or entirely disbelieve the phenomenon, this book will change your mind.
Today's smiles are in the merit of my friend and I made a conscious effort to smile throughout the day.
Written with flowing language and engaging style, Attar weaves a spell that combines mystery, humor, adventure and Kabbalah in the most magical place in the world, the Old City of erusalem.
“My mother raised us to independence, all of us,” Rivka says, which certainly plays itself out in the fact that all three children have taken a different path.
Why am I getting so agitated? And look how we’re treating each other!
He has always supported the underdog, once even quite literally, legislating a law that prohibits the abandonment of pets.
“Have you forgotten your dreams?” The Hope Merchant asks a defeated and hopeless Lily when she “happens” upon his shop.
Although the book is a light, and not to be taken in anyway as a halachic, treatise, there are some poignant moments and you may just learn a thing or two.
Even in the best of times, life is not free of calamity or crisis. But like the well-known Jewish expression goes: “It could be a lot worse.”
He didn’t start the fire either, but Solomon’s parodies and adaptations have been igniting the Jewish spark in hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide.
The IDF does its best to accommodate everyone's religious, linguistic and ethnic needs.
Not long after my mother died, I was sitting on campus talking with a friend and mentioned that it had been a long time since I had seen a frog. I used to love going out into the garden with my mother and our St. Bernard dog in the autumn evenings and see the frogs come out. I have a thing about frogs – probably from reading too many fairy tales.
In an April Lessons in Emunah column, I wrote an article called “Learning to Dance in the Rain” about two friends who were very ill. One was in a hospice. The doctors had given up hope and the family waited with a heavy heart. But there was still One Doctor left. And He began to heal her. Slowly, the disease began to reverse itself, slowly it began to withdraw.
When I call my friend on her birthday and ask her how it feels to be her new age, she answers, “It's better than the alternative.” Yes, we’ve all heard Vivian Greene’s words: “Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
Each one of us finds ourselves at the center of six generations of history. We hear the echoes of our grandparents’ era and see the beginnings of that of our grandchildren and we hope and endeavor to be the fulfillment of the hopes of one and the inspiration of the other.
Having faith is often difficult, especially when having to deal with more than one life challenge.
Where I now work, there is a small kitchen where workers can have lunch. We take our lunch breaks at different times, and I usually take mine at the same time as an unassuming young man named Benny Green, a 25-year-old who works in the company’s stockroom.
There are 613 mitzvoth – we all know that. We also all know it is impossible for one person to perform all 613. Twenty-five mitzvot can only be performed in the Land of Israel, which leaves many Jews out in the cold, shall we say. After all, the people of Israel and the Land of Israel are inextricably intertwined; they are in fact dependent on one another for survival. But Judaism has a solution or as a modern Israeli would say, a “patent.” Mitzvot can be performed by proxy; by taking a part in a mitzvah one merits a share in the whole.
My son lost his backpack when traveling back to his base. He had put it in the hold of the bus in which he was traveling. He would need to replace his wallet, tefillin, clothes, books, phone charger and all of his documentation. Of course the tefillin was the most important item of all. It was a bar mitzvah gift from his grandparents and specially written for him, and we all know how expensive tefillin are. But obviously the sentimental value was irreplaceable.
Less than two weeks before Pesach and days after the Toulouse tragedy, where a woman lost her husband and two sons in a terrorist attack, my son and I were discussing another horrible tragedy that had befallen a family in Rehovot, a young woman who had lost her husband and five young children in a fire.
July 10, 2026 
