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Musings Of A Shliach From Montana When you find yourself standing before a soul on fire, crying from the essence of their neshamah, it’s impossible not to be moved. This past Shabbos in shul I shared a story from a few years back about Rabbi Zale Newman of Toronto arranging a funeral for a local […]

From the blog of Motti Wilhelm at The Times of Israel

Singing of hope and endurance in the killing fields of Europe

From the blog of Dovid Vigler at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Jonathan Muskat at The Times of Israel

Part I In 2013, an Israeli geneticist named Eran Elhaik published a bombshell article in the Genome Biology and Evolution Journal (published by Oxford University Press) that essentially sought to prove that the origin of Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewry lies in a group of warriors who were known as the Khazars.

On Seder Night, we cross the bridge from Egypt to Shema

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 ...

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