Day: October 12, 2019

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Israeli actress Gal Gadot Entertainment industry website Deadline reported exclusively this weekend that Israeli actress Gal Gadot is teaming with her producing partner and husband Jaron Versano to form a new production company called, “Pilot Wave.” The company’s first project will be “the fact-based historical thriller Irena Sendler,” with […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Many mitzvos are considered halachically fulfilled even if we do them thoughtlessly. Not so the mitzvah of sukkah, says the Bach. When sitting in a sukkah, we must know and think about why we’re sitting there. The Torah says, “L’maan yeidu doroseichem ki basukos hoshavti es Bnei Yisrael b’hotzeisi eschem mei’Eretz […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I studied under many teachers when I was growing up. Many of them were considered the gedolim of the generation. I remember when I attended Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh and my rosh yeshiva was the tzaddik Rabbi Chayim Yaakov Goldvicht. I recall the teachers I was privileged to have when I attended […]

Photo Credit: David B. Gleason / Wikimedia The Pentagon, 2008 Turkish forces in northern Syria “accidentally” shelled a contingent of US Special Forces, according to an exclusive report published Friday by Newsweek Magazine. The publication was told by an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and a senior Pentagon official that the shelling by Turkish forces was […]