Day: January 2, 2020

Photo Credit: Twitter screenshot Chabadniks overcome black attacker in Crown Heights. Chabad Updates tweeted late Thursday night: “Drama these minutes, an anti-Semitic attack by an African-American man on Troy Street and Union in the Chabad neighborhood of Crown Heights, a number of Chabadniks are trying to overcome the attacker.” In an update later in the […]

Photo Credit: Ali Khamenei’s website via Wikimedia Qasem Soleimani Qasem Soleimani, 62, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, responsible for terrorist operations around the Middle East, was killed late Thursday in an American airstrike at Iraq’s Baghdad Airport, the Pentagon reported. The Pentagon statement said that “at the direction of the president, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I was introduced to a wonderful guy that I like on so many levels. We have the same sense of humor, he is smart, ambitious, and we really seem to see eye to eye. He is however, a bit more modern in his approach to Yiddishkeit than I […]

Photo Credit: CLKER {Originally posted to the JNS website} Anyone who has, as I have, spent his professional life covering the Jewish world as a journalist is not likely to spend much time wondering why Jews are so smart. I don’t think that “genius” is the best word to describe those in the organized Jewish […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Low family Cecile Low in her youth In the beautiful but remote town of Valhalla, New York under a cloudless blue sky, several dozen Jewish men huddled around the grave that was opened for Cecile Low, z’l, in the neatly manicured Sharon Gardens Jewish Cemetery in Westchester, chanting Kaddish, the traditional Jewish […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Rema (Shulchan Aruch 95), writes that it is a custom to take three steps forward before saying Shemone Esrei. The Darkei Moshe says this custom is based on the Rokeach who writes that the three steps correspond to the three times the word “vayigash – and he drew near” appear […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Parshas Vayigash tells us that Yaakov, before bringing his family to Egypt, “sent Yehudah ahead of him to prepare [l’horos] ahead of him in Goshen” (Bereishis 46:28). “L’horos,” says the Midrash, is related to the word “Torah.” Yaakov’s purpose in sending Yehudah ahead of him was to establish a yeshiva in […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “When they related to him all the words Yosef had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived” (Bereishis 45:27). Rashi tells us that these wagons hinted to the topic – eglah arufah – that Yosef […]