יום חמישי, ו׳ תשרי תשפ״זThursday, September 17, 2026
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True, the mayor and his administration have pulled back substantially from the April comments singling out parts of the Jewish community which began to put a Jewish face on the pandemic. They now speak mostly of “hot zones” of enhanced numbers of cases.
His call for an international conference reveals that he has not abandoned his perennial, if unrealistic, efforts to avoid resolving issues directly with Israel.
Reports continue that Israel will establish relations with at least Sudan and Oman in the next few weeks. President Trump has said the number could be as high as nine countries.
We have shuls in Dubai and in Abu Dhabi. In addition to the 2,000-3,000 Jews who live here, we now have thousands of Jewish tourists who are already starting to come.
If Albert Einstein had been frum, should he have become a rosh yeshiva rather than a scientist?
Thoughts filled the air with: What will be with the virus? When will the roads be open again? What decree was sealed in heaven this year for the nation?
News From Across The Pond.
By Tzvi Fishman
She was a role model for all of us in Hevron, both as a devoted mother and wife, and as a round-the-clock servant of the nation...
I am a Jew. That is a fact [and] you do me no injury by reminding me of the race to which I belong and have never renounced and toward which I feel only gratitude and pride.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
We can soon expect a flood of Moslem tourists to Israel. These tourists will certainly want to visit Jerusalem and some of its iconic Islamic symbols, such as the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The question is: What will they be told about them?
If Mr. Amitai isn't called up, he doesn't have to honor his pledge - unless he decides to award the aliyah to someone else.
When Rabbi Margolin arrived home he sat down with his rebbetzin and they discussed what had transpired in the Rebbe's home. They talked, and thought and begged Hashem to give them the right thoughts so that they would make the right decision.
Over the course of the 18th century, the Ashkenazi population of The Hague grew to surpass that of the Portuguese, the latter being the earlier and more establishment community in the Netherlands.
As soon as we wake up, we are (hopefully) motivated to join the world.
When one reads the commandments of Shabbat as they appear in the books of Shemot and Devarim, two divergent formulations appear: “Zachor” and “Shamor.” Which one appeared on the Ten Commandments?
We should not make that lawyer choose between observing his or her faith and appearing before the Court.
None of these girls are the “same type” yet going to their seminary branded them as a certain “type.” Had their respective husbands not gone out with them because of the schools they went to, they would’ve never married their bashert.
At some point in the last half a year, everyone has had something in their lives changed. The most important thing to know about these changes is that they were orchestrated by Hashem personally.
Only once a year, during these 10 days, is Hashem is available to everyone no matter how sullied he or she is.
AP's style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses."
If “moderate” Arab leaders have to make extremist statements to “appease the radicals,” it means the masses of Arabs continue to hold radical anti-Israel views.
Say thank you for all that you have, for the tremendous abundance in your life that cannot be taken for granted in any way.
By Tzvi Fishman
Said Litzman, "Gamzu doesn't understand the significance of such a pilgramage [to Uman] just like I don't understand the importance of a basketball game."
The governor couldn’t believe the audacity of the man. He immediately called the police to arrest him.
While my children and I did not attend shul this year (my husband attended a very small, very early morning minyan), we did manage to have a special davening experience.
No Jew need be intimidated by the imagined enormity of the leap from non-observance to observance. Moreover, every mitzvah a Jew performs creates a permanent bond with Hashem that can never be erased.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
This is a doctrine fundamental to Judaism and its understanding of evil and suffering in the world: G-d is just.
By Tzvi Fishman
Asked how Ben Uliel reacted to the news, Baum said, “He has great faith. He is a follower of Breslov, and he looks for the good in everything.
In Cheshek Shlomo, Rabbi Pappenheim connects “eitan” to the biliteral root aleph-tav, which he further reduces to the monoliteral root tav. He explains that this root means connections and linking.
Dating can be hard and it can be disheartening. This is especially true for those that have dated for a long time.
Twin Cities ‘A City Is Given A Karpif’ (Eruvin 57a)
I’ll be very honest and vulnerable: When we started, we were young and we felt very threatened when there was a trend in accessories and everyone and their mothers were involved in a headband company.
By Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Schiffman
We all sometimes think in warped and twisted ways. ... As an example, control fallacies can lead us to believe that we have absolutely no control over our lives.
President Trump has called out anti-Semitism voiced by members of Congress such as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, while Biden has welcomed their support and pledged at the virtual Million Muslim Vote Summit to invite “Muslim American voices as part of [his] administration."
Although an obvious breakthrough for peace in the region, it was brokered by Trump. And horrors, Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu were even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize!
I have clear memories of walking to shul with my father and feeling confused and uncomfortable watching black people step off of the sidewalk on Wickham Avenue as we walked by, seemingly in deference to our superior position as “white folk.”
Various party functionaries cited as precedent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to schedule a confirmation hearing for President Obama’s 2016 choice of Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, who had recently died, because it was a presidential election year.
Everyone agrees that these numbers are up, but that's pretty much where agreement ends. Will the lockdown decrease the numbers?
Two very prominent examples of how his own decision-making has been challenged are Barr’s efforts to dismiss the Michael Flynn prosecution and his reducing the sentence imposed on Roger Stone initially recommended by prosecutors in the case.
Question: I was recently told by my physician that I shouldn’t fast on Tisha B’Av or Yom Kippur for health reasons. However, I feel very uncomfortable following this directive as I have never eaten on these two fast days in my life. What should I do? No Name Please
Temple proved to be one of the great outspoken advocates for the Jewish victims of the Reich. ... He regularly and unabashedly took publicly unpopular positions, including advocacy for England and its allies to grant asylum to Jews able to escape Hitler.
How does a person let go of a grudge against someone who harmed him or her egregiously?
When we make our mistakes, we feel it here and now. However, our mistakes are also written up in heaven, in our books.
By Marc Gronich
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, September 18, at her home in Washington, D.C., it was just around the time of shkiah – the beginning of Rosh Hashanah and Shabbos.
News From Across The Pond.
By dvora
"Chock full" is an apt description of this work, as it offers insight on many issues. These include why it’s inaccurate to say the Jews displaced another people in returning to Eretz Yisrael, why support for Israel is growing in the Christian world, and why giving away parts of Israel doesn't work.
What about emotional and mental health issues? How do we get to the root of those? There are diagnostics, tests, and surveys to help diagnose emotional or mental issues. But, we all know that there are times that we get it wrong.
We loved hearing from our son by phone, and sometimes there was good enough reception to see him on WhatsApp. He was really having a wonderful time. He would plan his hiking itinerary around the goal of being in a Chabad House for Shabbatot.
This probably is not indicative of a larger issue, but either way, it is not your place to address it.
Hashem won’t punish someone if the punishment will indirectly harm innocent people who depend on him.
All of our good deeds should be rooted in this truth that Hashem commanded us and that is why we are doing the mitzvos.
There is no reason why we should have a monopoly on kind speech, and Telushkin has gone so far as to initiate a bipartisan group of senators to introduce Senate Resolution 264 calling for a national “Speak No Evil Day” in America.
By Tzvi Fishman
I’ve learned a great many things from him about serving Hashem, about teshuvah, about simcha, about emphasizing the good points, about always striving to ascend higher and higher.
We can see that the rabbis in the Talmud themselves understood and found error in the practices of those times.
I took counsel with my grandfather who has already passed away and with my grandchild who has not yet been born.
A Sage View ‘It Needs An Iron Partition To Divide It’ (Eruvin 47b-48a)
There is still a mitzvah of hashavas aveidah in this situation, and using the towel without permission could constitute theft.
One of the most significant ways of making this world a dwelling place for the Divine Presence is by giving tzedakah.
Without the option to have been a fly on the wall during your dates, it is impossible for anyone to completely determine if it was too fast, too slow, or just enough.
Question: How should we regard the current pandemic with Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur upon us? Is there a special prayer or specific role for prayer when the totality of humanity is in danger? M. Sorkin
How do you provide a stellar education in all subjects with just one instructor? How do middle- or lower-class parents afford microschools?
The Chofetz Chaim answered: “Every Jew needs to know how great Hashem is.”
While I generally had a lot of fun on these interviews, I still am embarrassed when I recall our first in-Hebrew television interview.
Another verse in Psalms (68:35) exhorts the reader to give “oz” to G-d. Obviously we can’t actually strengthen G-d.
Saeb Erekat has declared Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu “a war criminal that’s not worth the bullet it would take to shoot him.”
By Tzvi Fishman
Thousands have been stranded in Belarus, prevented from continuing across the border, but those with money can pay a bribe of $2,200 to the authorities to be smuggled into Uman.
On the left, the concept of objective truth is increasingly deemed a form of white supremacy.
On September 13th, J. Greenstein & Co., located in Brooklyn, offered a wide array of Jewish ceremonial objects, both antique and modern.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
It follows therefore that if vengeance is wrong, it could not have been commanded by G-d – not to Christians, and not to Jews. If it was commanded, we must be able to make some moral sense of it, whether we are Jews or Christians.
Painful or not he spoke out. It was not a normal election and the Jewish community faced an abnormal threat.
The recurring theme one hears from his supporters is that Trump has destroyed the sense of bipartisan support that has long characterized U.S. policy towards Israel – curious contention given the growing Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez anti-Israel cabal.
Rather than coming up with an across-the-board assessment of what it would take to rejuvenate as quickly and as efficiently as possible, the mayor... saw an opportunity to pursue a long frustrated agenda.
The left is the source of virtually 100 percent of the anti-Israel activity on American campuses today. Biden has never condemned BLM by name and has not confronted the menace of Jew hatred within academia.
Ironically, the signings took place very close to the anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords – possibly the worst agreement since… ever… like in the history of the world.
On several occasions after the meeting, Ben-Gurion expressed his enchantment with the Chazon Ish.
And Comey’s “leaks?” What about them? And what about those meetings Obama and Biden attended in which instructions for an investigation of Donald Trump arguably appear to have been issued?
Should rabbis recommend that people vote for a particular candidate?
By Tzvi Fishman
Caution is called for, but not to the point of turning our backs on the positive.
No matter what truly happened in any given situation, the media is there to chop up whatever "meat" is offered in the town square and hang that victim up by a noose for life.
The Maharil explains that the custom of Tashlich – like many other Rosh Hashanah minhagim – is intended to evoke G-d’s mercy by recalling Akeidat Yitzchak.
local Jewish Bury Councillor Jane Black said: “Pikuach nefesh, the protection of life, is the highest principle in Judaism and we, as a community, must take responsibility and protect ourselves and others from Covid-19.”
In the book of Ruth, we learn that Boaz married his late kinsman's childless widow. King David was a descendant of this union – and Moshiach.
We are truly seeing the vision of the prophet Isaiah unfold when "nations will cease to lift up the sword against one another and terminate the study of war" (Isaiah 2:4).
I did not ask for parnassah or to find a new job. I asked The Rebbe that there should be a shul (synagogue) within 2 or 3 blocks from the place where I will eventually find work.
By dvora
Time has not lessened my longing for her however, comfort did come to me in a very unexpected manner.
An Early Navigational Instrument ‘Rabbi Gamliel Used His Tube To Measure…’ (Eruvin 43b)
Under his signature appears the address 50 West 120th St. in New York City – his address in Harlem when Jews were a dominant presence in the neighborhood.
Question: The Covid-19 pandemic has put an end to almost all public gatherings; hence, much of Jewish congregational ritual has come to a halt. Is there a way to make up for everything we missed? M. Goldman
By Irwin Cohen
Greenberg was the biggest Jewish hero in America at the time, but the Tigers actually had a second Jewish player in 1938.
September 11, 2026 
