A Mezuman Was All They Had

For three Jewish soldiers stationed in the US Army’s Forward Operating Base ‘Sharana’ in Afghanistan, a Mezuman was all they had for this Yom Kippur and they spent it together complete with kosher food for the Seudah Hamfsekes and the Tefilos together.

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Op-Ed: “Parents, Keep an Eye on Your Kids”

by Sender Klein

We are holding right before Yom Kipper and HaShem wants to seal each and every one of us for a year of good health. We don’t know His master plan, but we do know that everything, no matter how tragic, happens for a reason.

The Rebbe Arranges a Visitor for a Lonely Man

Rabbi Shalom Ber Lipshitz arrived in New York on a Thursday after a long flight from Israel with plans to continue on to Canada immediately. Rabbi Lipshitz, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, headed an organization supporting Jewish educational institutions in the Land of Israel. He was travelling specifically to attend a fundraising event and hoped that spending the Sabbath with the locals would enable him to share his success stories in a more relaxed environment.

Chabad’s Kaparot Chickens Help the Needy

Arutz 7

One of the customs of erev Yom Kippur, the day before the fast, is the mystical Kaparot ceremony, carried out by prescribing a circular motion three times above a person’s head while saying a prayer that symbolically “exchanges” the object above his head for him.

Florida Chabad House Grows with a Torah

Sun-Sentinel

Rabbi Mordechai Andrusier of Chabad of Pembroke Pines leads the celebration for the synagogue’s first owned Torah. Photo: Eric Bojanowski

Approximately 100 congregants marched the streets by singing, dancing and celebrating Chabad of Pembroke Pines’ first owned Torah.

Op-Ed: Zman Magazine Rewriting History

by Shalom Wolff

When I was flipping through the table of contents of the most recent issue of the Zman Magazine, it brought me great pleasure (albeit prematurely) to see that they had a feature story on ‘heroic [Russian] Jews who led a spiritual revolt [in the USSR]’. It didn’t take long until I realized that the magazine’s motive wasn’t to convey a portion of history as it had taken place, rather to [re]write history. In this article consisting of a couple of hundred sentences, merely two of them mentioned Chabad (to be quite honest, I wasn’t holding my breath).