Living, Breathing Faith

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Rabbi Mendel Mangel puts the challah for Shabbat dinner on the table in his Cherry Hill home.
Rabbi Mendel Mangel puts the challah for Shabbat dinner on the table in his Cherry Hill home.

Despite the number of cooks in the kitchen, preparations to create a Shabbat dinner were moving smoothly. That’s no small feat, and this was no small event – not just because the Mangels are a family with eight children, ages 3 to 19.

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6 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Yankel and Pessa Rochel (nee Katz) Lipsidge
1276 President St, [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]

Motti and Rivkah (nee Kulik) Torenheim
272 Kingston Avenue [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]

Zalmy and Yehudis (nee Kaminetsky) Futerfas
1395 Carroll St, [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]

Mordy and Sammy Greenstein (Crown Heights)

Mordy and Nechama Dena (nee Loshak) Dinerman (Crown Heights)

Elchonon and Pnina (nee Abush) Komar (Sydney, Australia)

Here’s My Story: Taking up the Rebbe’s Time

by Rabbi Solomon Trau
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In the 1950s, when I was a young man, I befriended Rabbi Moses Rosen, who was the chief rabbi of Romania. Whenever he came to New York, he prayed in my shul, which was the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and when we discovered that we both spoke French, it brought us together. We became good friends, our wives became friends, and it was a great friendship for friendship’s sake, as the saying goes.

‘Pulling an All-Nighter’ for the Sake of the Torah

by Mindy Rubenstein - Chabad.org
After a night of Torah study, thousands of worshippers will gather at the Kotel in Jerusalem on the morning of Shavuot for services at daybreak, as in the photo above taken in a previous year by a visitor to Jerusalem from Poland. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, D. Majewski)
After a night of Torah study, thousands of worshippers will gather at the Kotel in Jerusalem on the morning of Shavuot for services at daybreak, as in the photo above taken in a previous year by a visitor to Jerusalem from Poland. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, D. Majewski)

David Adler has a family and runs a business, but on Tuesday night, he’ll be up late for a different reason—learning Torah.