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One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, Accidental Talmudist There I will meet with you, and I will impart to you — from above the cover, from between the two cherubim that are on top of the Ark of the Pact — all that I will command you concerning the Israelite people. -Exodus 25:22 Rabbi […]
Yisrael Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels was interviewed by Chabad many years ago about his many encounters throughout the years with the Lubavitcher Rebbe to receive advice and instructions about his work. One of the stories he told was a fascinating encounter […]
Before becoming the president of the Ithaca College chapter of Chabad on Campus, Elias Elliot grew up in an untraditional Jewish household. His family celebrated Christmas and Easter. The only true connection Elliot had to Judaism was the knowledge of his Jewish ancestors and his great grandfather’s tefillin, which are a set of small black […]
The translation from Hebrew to English took world renowned Rabbi Steinsaltz 8 years to complete. For the first time ever, a book of Talmud will be accepted into the US’s National Library of Congress, the largest library in the world. The book of Talmud, translated by world renowned scholar Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz, will be […]
Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb 25, 2020 / 08:00 pm (CNA).- The Catholic Church has “firmly condemned” anti-Semitism, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana said Feb. 19, warning against theological errors and “false and hateful” rhetoric against Jews on social media. “Unfortunately, there has been a rise in recent years of anti-Jewish and […]
The Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia awarded a former yeshivah student who was sexually assaulted by his karate teacher $804,170 in a civil case against his perpetrator and serial abuser. Manny Waks was 13 when the abuse by his former karate teacher, David Cyprys, then 20, started in 1988 while he was a student at the Yeshivah […]
Using only his eyes and a computer screen to communicate his heartfelt wishes, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, who has inspired and uplifted people around the world since being immobilized by ALS in 2013, wrote a deeply personal message describing his joy that thousands of Jewish people are doing mitzvahs in honor of his 48th birthday, and […]
The European Jewish Association is scheduled to unveil a wide-ranging action plan to fight anti-Semitism in Europe at its annual conference in Paris today (Tuesday). The plan was compiled in recent months by chairman of the EJA Rabbi Menachem Margolin and a team from the EJA, who consulted with experts, heads of Jewish communities throughout […]
The Jewish community in Iceland joyfully held a hachnasas Sefer Torah last week in the capital city of Reykjavík for the Nordic country’s first permanent Torah, a JTA report said. For a country in which shechita has been illegal for decades and has made headlines in the Jewish press for its proposal to criminalize circumcision […]
After elucidating the reason a (relatively) small number of Prophets were cited (in juxtaposing lackluster spiritual awakenings they engendered, in comparison with the tsunami of Teshuva caused by Haman), the Talmud seeks to identity the seven Prophetesses – also cast as less impactful. Interestingly, the distinction of prophetic posterity isn’t overtly invoked, and there seems […]