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‘After Christ’s example, I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a frui...

Particularly this year, it’s crucial to ensure that the entire congregation is present for these commemorative prayers. 

‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands ...

If Gaza has not given up, why should we? Giving up is a privilege. Gaza does not have that privilege nor should we grant it to ourselves.

"All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza.But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and wounded by the Israeli war machine? No. There is much that can be

There is, however, one casualty of this war that is very welcome, and that is the aura of invincibility and power that enveloped Israel and its armed forces for decades

Yosef HaTzaddik was in a terrible situation. Sold into slavery by his own brothers, he had every reason to feel wronged. Surprisingly, when he is finally reunited with them in Parshat Vayigash, Yosef tells his brothers that they are not responsible for what happened to him. Though they sold him into slavery, Hashem orchestrated the […]

It’s hard to describe the feeling of pure simcha and nachas that Chavie and I experienced as we observed hundreds of Jews celebrating Chanukah with an oomph like we’ve never seen before. In cities and towns across Montana, young and old, religious and atheistic, left wing and right wing, lovers of Chabad and those reluctant […]

By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt”l There is an important and apparently ancient theme in the Aggadah concerning the episode of Jacob and his children that is both intriguing and disturbing. The Scriptural tale is well known. The brothers decide to sell Joseph as a slave, removed his “coat of many colors,” dipping it in blood, […]