Bless Hashem News Today

By Yochanan Gordon I generally like to utilize the yom tov issues of the newspaper to write something pertaining to the holiday at hand. That is especially so regarding Rosh Hashanah, which is the source of all holidays and all of history as it is the birthday of the world. So, when the opportunity presented […]

Without a support system, a tzibbur, religion gets stale fast. Why?   Last week, I had a phone conversation with a devastated young bochur, Shua Pariser, whose family davens in my shul. Shua is currently learning in Eretz Yisrael, and this past year he learned three sedorim a day in MTA  with Donny Morris, one of the pure souls who lost his life in Meron. Shua told me how he had planned to spend Shabbos parshas Emor together with Donny in yeshivah… plans that were not meant to be. Shua had ...