If you didn’t know that the Torah had a sense of humor, you probably missed the narrative at the center of this week’s Parsha – the legendary tale of two highly influential leaders, Balak and Bilaam who rapidly slipped from grace and glory into the depth of shame and depravity.
Before his historic first meeting with newly-elected U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Washington, Begin asked me to arrange a meeting with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in New York.
“Shabbat across the Atlantic,” CTeen’s first annual European shabbaton, proved that friendship runs much deeper than language and mentality barriers. Driving in from cities as far as 16 hours away, teens from Austria, Germany, Russia and France flocked to downtown Berlin for an uplifting weekend of Jewish pride and friendship.
With a total area of 147,046 square miles, Montana—the fourth-largest state in the country after Alaska, Texas and California—is slightly larger than Japan.
The women make up the Secret Service Division of the Army of Hashem. Rochel Holzkenner uses the concept of the mirrors that the women brought for the Beis Hamikdash as the feminine modality: materialism with spiritual potential.
Yankel and Miriam (nee Wilhelm) Shurpin (Crown Heights)
Rephael Yoel Ozer, an adorable two year old toddler residing in Clifton, NJ, was hit and crushed by a car four months ago. His injuries were so severe that doctors r”l did give him much of a chance. Now, his family released a video detailing his miraculous recovery. Video fixed.
Today Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Shliach of the Rebbe in Berlin and Rabbi of the Jewish community attended the talk of President Obama at the Brndenburg gate, after talk he shortly greeted and thanked the president.
A pair of perverts assaulted a Jewish woman near Beis Rivka before the eyes of multiple witnesses. Once Shomrim was called they were apprehended, only to be released since only one committed the crime and the woman was not certain who it was.
Students biking through Stanford’s White Plaza several weeks ago back-pedaled curiously to check out an unusual scene. Set up at the center of Stanford’s campus was a Google Glass tefillin stand.
Southwest Florida Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowitz was invited by Ft. Myers mayor Randall Henderson to open the City Council meeting with a prayer.
In 1966 Israeli President Zalman Shazar paid a, well documented, visit to the Rebbe. Now, for the first time, video footage of the visit has been made public through the states archive.
Avrumie Safranovitz (Hillside, NJ) and Racheli Dadon (Cape Town, South Africa)
A man and woman were arrested after they were found inside a vacant home on Eastern Parkway. Shomrim apprehended the pair after received a call from a relative of the owner.
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