In a slap in the face to the Brooklyn Jewish community, Rep. Yvette Clarke released two statements today on social media saying she will do everything in her legislative power to stop President Trump and Israel from defending our countries against Iran.
Don’t pretend you didn’t know what was happening. Camps don’t pay, and parents don’t tip. Now make the decision, take it or leave it.
If I had hit him, even accidentally, G-d forbid, my life would never be the same. My wife and children would carry that trauma. My livelihood could be destroyed. I would live forever with the image of a child in front of my car.
Technology moves fast. Faster than most of us realize. Something new comes out, people try it, and before long it feels like it has always been there. Nobody plans for big changes in standards. They happen gradually, through little decisions that seem harmless at first.
The Beis Rivkah bus drivers are going bonkers, I’m sure all the other schools are suffering just the same. And the general residents are not suffering any less.
Because when $800,000 in security funding is associated with 770, yet the building still feels exposed, something is broken. And pretending otherwise is no longer an option.
In a Shul, we understand that proper Mechitzos are necessary in order to help people focus on their Davening. If that is true in a regular shul, how much more so in a place like the Ohel, where people are trying to reach deep levels of concentration and emotion in their tefillos.
Parents, I know sometimes it can feel overwhelming, raising teenagers is no easy task. But from what I saw this summer, you should know that today’s youth are incredible. You daughter is incredible.
I have lived in Crown Heights for decades. When new leadership ran for the Vaad Hakohol and Community Council, I voted, encouraged others to vote, and believed—sincerely—that after years of inertia, something would finally change. Two years in, it’s time for an honest accounting.
Why are so many Chabad bochrim struggling in, and potentially at risk of leaving Yeshiva? A complex question with an assuredly complex answer. I don’t claim to possess it. What I do know is that it is not the Israeli army.
Sometimes a child carries their father with them in ways nobody else can see.
Aside from the lack of time, the most common challenge to properly learn any idea in Chassidus is a lack of clarity.
“I’m not ready yet,” he whispers – not with words, but with his entire body. Understanding their world through the child’s eyes changes everything.
May Hashem help that soon, before it’s too late, for the sake of our children, and for the sake of the legitimacy of Lubavitch, our rabbis and leaders will have the courage to publicly declare what needs to be said.
I think we can all agree that concerts are a blast; however, there are some – myself included – who do not do mixed seating.
Recently, I completed the registration process for four of my children in a single school. The collective financial burden we’re expected to carry is simply not realistic. By any standard, it’s not normal. The emotions I felt as this reality set in were complex—and conflicting.
The simcha of Yom Tov doesn’t come from what is in the glass. It comes from the Torah in our arms. From the circles we make. From the joy we bring with our own voices and feet.
