“Question: Should we relate to non-Zionist Rabbis reservedly and in a unpleasant manner? Answer: G-d forbid that such an idea should enter your mind! We are obligated to honor all Torah scholars, even if there are sharp differences of opinion between us and them, and anyone who scorns a Torah scholar is in the category […]
“The Friendship Circle is on the road to possibly winning a $1 million donation in a Facebook contest today. The only caveat is that the most important voting hours of the competition are set to take place after the start of Shabbos, tonight. Rabbi Levi Shemtov, national coordinator for the Friendship Circle, has publicly requested […]
“For decades, the Goldenberg Pletzl restaurant — better known as “Jo Goldenberg’s” — served up potato latkes, matzo ball soup or corned beef sandwiches to Parisian Jews and tourists in Le Marais district, until it shut down four years ago. The establishment, targeted in a grenade and machine-gun attack in 1982 that left six people […]
“Before becoming famous, Rebbe Shlomo of Karlin learned Torah without caring at all for the livelihood of his family. He would sit all day in the study hall and learn and totally ignored their needs. Things became so bad that his young wife thought of taking her children and jumping with them into the river, […]
“For various reason of aesthetics and national interests, the famed Hebrew lexicographer Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the 1913 Hebrew Language Council tended to side with the contemporary Sephardi pronunciation, ultimately resulting in the minimization of the number of consonant and vowel sounds in modern Hebrew. This change followed earlier Haskala reforms that attempted to create a […]
“Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at Rome’s main synagogue January 17, 2010. “ DayLife.com
“The relationship between the Rebbe and Rabbi Hollander blossomed in future years, with Rabbi Hollander later teaming up with Chabad representatives to better their Brooklyn community. In the 1980s, the Bronx Jewish community began to dwindle and give way to changing demographics. Rabbi Hollander, then 70, mentioned the idea of retirement to the Lubavitcher Rebbe. […]
“ Howard Carter, the British explorer who opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, will forever be associated with the greatest trove of artifacts from ancient Egypt. But was he also a thief?” more@Spiegel.de
“Michael Steinhardt, one of world Jewry’s most philanthropic benefactors and a co-founder of Birthright Israel, delivered a scathing criticism last week of all that he sees wrong with the Jewish world today and singled out non-Orthodox life.In a television interview last week Thursday with Mark S. Golub of Shalom TV , Steinhardt expressed his deep […]
