Your guide to everything Jewish about ‘Star Wars’ – Forward
admin | May 4, 2020
The temporally distant and far-flung galaxy of Star Wars is, like the Torah, a text touched by many hands over the years.
admin | May 4, 2020
The temporally distant and far-flung galaxy of Star Wars is, like the Torah, a text touched by many hands over the years.
admin | May 4, 2020
R Yehosef Yosef Halevi Dachuch, a member of the Chabad community in Bnei Brak, was niftar due to the coronavirus on Wednesday. R Dachuch was born in Yemen and made aliyah to Israel with his family. As a bochur, he learned in a Chabad yeshivah in Lod and later moved to Bnei Brak
admin | May 4, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press You shall love your fellow as yourself (Vayikra 19:18). The Talmud (Yevamos 62b) relates that R Akiva had 12,000 pairs of students, all of whom died between Pesach and Shavuos because they didnt treat each other with respect.
admin | April 29, 2020
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admin | April 29, 2020
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admin | April 29, 2020
A call went out for volunteers, and I answered. I wrote this on Friday, the day after my first shift at Boston Hope, a 1,000-bed field hospital built this month at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center to treat COVID-19 patients.
admin | April 29, 2020
A large crowd of Hasidim clashed with police in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday, three days into a government-mandated closure of two of the citys ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. Dozens of black-clad men screamed Nazis as law enforcement officers attempted to shut down Ateret Yehoshua Talmud Torah, an Orthodox elementary school in the Hasidic enclave of Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet, which had remained open in violation of Health Ministry directives intended to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
admin | April 29, 2020
Not many online cooking classes start with a plea to give tzedakah. But then, not many online cooking classes are taught by a Chabad rabbi.
admin | April 29, 2020
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday evening that a decision has been made to re-open schools on Sunday in a limited fashion, beginning with children in kindergarten and 1st through 3rd grades. The decision is subject to change if infection rates begin to increase before then, with a situational assessment to take place on Friday.
admin | April 29, 2020
iStock The Israeli flag flies over the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalems Old City. Israelis and Zionists around the world will mark Yom HaZikaron, this year starting on the evening of April 27. Yom HaZikaron LeHalalei Maarakhot Israel ulNifgeei Peulot HaEivah, literally: Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism