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Shliach Vows to Return to Dagestan Despite Danger

Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot by “a member of one of the most extreme Islamic terrorist groups in the Chechnya-Caucasus area,” according to the President of Dagestan, Russia, and recovering on Sunday, in “satisfactory condition,” at the Beilinson hospital in Petach Tikva, Israel, said he hoped to return to Dagestan, despite the anti-Semitic violence, according to Israel Channel 2, reporting from the rabbi’s bedside.

National Jewish Retreat Launches Mobile App

The lives of those going to the National Jewish Retreat just got a little easier. The country’s largest Jewish retreat recently launched a new mobile app that will allow the over 900 attendees to personalize their retreat schedule right on their smart phones. With a swipe and a touch, Retreat goers can browse the array of lectures, have a look at the night’s entertainment, and choose which workshops to attend and when.

Immanuel Schochet, A Scholar who Defended Judaism with Passion

Rabbi Dr. Jacob Immanuel Schochet, a Chabad scholar and academic, and a preeminent defender of traditional Jewish belief, passed away on Shabbat, the 20th of Av 5773, July 27th 2013, following a long illness. He was 77.