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Rabbis Comfort Families After Train Derailment

Shortly after he heard the news that an Amtrak train had derailed on Monday morning in DuPont, Wash., Rabbi Yosef Schtroks, who co-directs Chabad of Olympia in Tumwater, Wash., headed for a nearby hospital where the injured were taken. “Realizing that this took place in my own backyard, that there are people suffering a terrible tragedy, my instinct was: ‘What can I do to help? How can I be supportive?’ ”

Video: Am I the Enemy?

Mark Halawa Grew up as a Palestinian refugee in Kuwait, and was taught all his life to hate Jews, until a discovery about his roots and a visit to the Ontario Chabad House of Rabbi Dr. Yitzchok Block, OBM, changed his life.

Video: The Eighth Flame of Your Soul

Does the Menorah awaken fond memories in your mind? Time spent with family, singing traditional songs, playing dreidel, eating donuts and latkes? The flickering flames of the menorah tell the story of something deep within our souls and tell us how we can access and express the deepest truest form of who we are, and what we can achieve when we do.