Our True Enemies

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In last week’s parsha Yaakov Avinu davened to Hashem “Hatzileini na miyad achi miyad Eisav – Please save me from the hand of my brother from the hand of Eisav.” The Bais HaLevi asks the obvious question, why does it need to say achi – my brother and Eisav? Yaakov only […]

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Chanukah In Baghdad: Then And Now

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Shown here is an invitation to transportation and engineering forces in the British Army in Persia and Iraq for the “[Jewish] Officers and Other Ranks of No. 1. Pal. Docks & L. of C. Checking Coy.R.E. Paiforce” in Baghdad. The invitation is for “a party to be held on the occasion […]

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Moving On

Photo Credit: Jewish Press We all have our share of good times and bad ones. Life is full of happy experiences and unfortunately, of hard times as well. That is the nature of the world, sometimes we’re up and sometimes we’re down. The problem isn’t what comes our way but how we approach it. After […]

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Parshas VaYeshev

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 51                           5780New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEDecember 20, 2019 – 22 Kislev 57804:13 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 5:18 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 5:44 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Weekly Reading: VaYeshevWeekly Haftara: Koh […]

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