via david-2.livejournal.com“On October 6, 1973 - Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar - Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel’s borders. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. […]
A Jewish family’s business survived the Civil War, but today’s economic crisis proved too muchLehman Brothers, the storied investment firm that filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, was no stranger to crisis. Early in its 158-year life, the firm was nearly crippled by the Civil War. But back then there was some cotton to cushion the […]
Exhibited for the first time in New York City,(September 21, 2008 - January 04, 2009 ) the Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the archaeological sensations of the 20th Century. This new exhibition features fragments of six scrolls, three of which are being exhibited for the first time anywhere. Created over 2,000 years ago, the scrolls […]
The 2008 presidential election is more about national security than the economy, the chairman of Sen. John McCain’s New York campaign said this morning. In an eight-minute speech to New York delegates at a breakfast Monday morning Ed Cox referred to 9/11 five different times and told New Yorkers they would face another attack […]
“It’s not quite the Dreyfus Affair, at least not yet. But France is divided again over power and the Jews. While the United States has been debating The New Yorker’s caricature of Barack Obama as a Muslim, France has gone off the deep end over a brief item in the country’s leading satirical magazine portraying […]
“Thirteen years ago when you returned from exile, you were disappointed to see the new Russia. You turned down a prize proposed by Gorbachev, and you also refused to accept an award Yeltsin wanted to give you. Yet now you have accepted the State Prize which was awarded to you by Putin, the former […]
3. “TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION” [From Sound the Great Shofar, p. 47-48.]
During the Three Weeks, it is a custom to study the laws of the Beit HaMikdash [Holy Temple]. Our Sages [Tanchuma, Tzav #14, on Ez.43:10] relate that G-d commanded the prophet Yechezkel to teach the Jewish people about the structure of the Beit HaMikdash while they […]
About a year ago, a new movie titled “Unvanquished” was published by ACC Studios on the arrest and imprisonment of the Rebbe Rayatz, the movie was a huge hit and caused waves all over the Former Soviet Union. The jail footage was actually filmed in the “Spalerka” prison in Leningrad. The movie was also published […]
“Since we are discussing the laws of the fast days and the subject of the Torah’s burning, we have written the following to commemorate what occurred in our times because of our many sins: the burning of our G-d’s Torah in the year 5004 [1244]4 of creation, on the sixth day of Parashas Chukkas when […]
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Available for the first time in English, “The Drama of Slavuta” draws on Jewish sources and official Tsarist government archives in providing insight into the shutdown of a major nineteenth-century Jewish printing establishment during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855), when the persecution of Jews and suppression of Jewish culture reached unprecedented heights […]
Attorney Nathan Lewin Arguing Chabad’s Case Against Russia
The U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia ruled in a landmark decision on June 13, 2008 that Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States may pursue claims in federal court against Russia in order to recover sacred religious texts and archives. Chabad – the largest Jewish […]
The 20th of Sivan is a day that was twice designated as a fast day for massacres against European Jewry; once by Rabbeinu Tam and once by the Shach. Special Selichos were said on this day. Below is a recent question and answer from the Ask Revach page that adds some light on the […]
