Air-raid sirens in Ukraine are not very loud for the same reason there are so few bomb shelters—no one ever expected to need them. Which is why Dubi Ehrentreu and Mendel Bleich didn’t notice Zaporizhzhia’s Red Alert go off late Purim morning.
Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka is the Tri-State Senior Rabbinic Coordinator at OK Kosher Certification. Prior to his current position, Rabbi Hanoka worked as a mashgiach for various manufacturing facilities certified by the OK.
Preparations are underway to dispatch over 600 Bochurim to lead Sedorim around the world this Pesach. Special attention is being given to ensure the Ukrainian refugees will have Pesach, wherever they may be.
This past Motzei Shabbos , the 17th of Adar was the yahrzeit of HaRav Zalman Shimon Dworkin, who for over twenty years was the Rov of Crown Heights and he was niftar in 5785 (1985). I will now post some of my recollections of that Shabbos. Although this column is not made to pasken halachos, obviously this one will be an exception as I will relate the halachos he taught me then.
In this weeks Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman explains the significance of the Para Aduma, and how it purifies “all of Israel”.
The Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Anne Spiegel, visited the orphans and single mothers with their children from the Jewish Odessa community in Ukraine who have recently arrived in Berlin and have been taken in by Chabad Berlin.
Batsheva Oberlander is the senior Shlucha, Chabad emissary, in Budapest, Hungary. In an interview with Chana Weisberg, she outlines what is being done to assist the many refugees streaming into Hungary.
A freshly formed curriculum looks to engage young Shluchim in an interactive format as they come together for a Hachana Tzuzamen in preparation for Yud Alef Nissan – 120 years. Over 400 Children have already signed up to join the program.
