Rav Frank News Today

From the blog of Simcha Feuerman at The Times of Israel

HaRav Yaakov Frank, a Rebbe at Talmud Torah Derech Tavunah in Ramot, spoke to Kol Chai Radio on Monday morning about his late talmid, Asher Menachem

From the blog of Daniel Landes at The Times of Israel

A large Religious Zionist congregation in North America slightly amends the standard text of the blessing for the State of Israel authored by Rav Yitzchak Herzog and Rav Ben Zion Hai Uzziel, the chief rabbis of Medinat Yisrael at the time of its founding in 1948. Instead of describing Medinat Yisrael as “reishit tzemichat geulateinu” (the beginning of the flowering of our redemption), it adds the word “shetehei” (that it should become) reishit tzemichat geulateinu.

Hanukkah menorah at Yeshivat Sderot, created with the Qassam rockets fired from Gaza that exploded nearby During the Yom Kippur War, the grandson of Rav Frank – the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, was asked whether the IDF soldiers could light Channukah candles in the field. He answered as follows (Rav Frank’s Mikra’ei Kodesh – Channukah: 18, note 3): I was asked a question about lighting Channukah candles with regard to soldiers who are stationed at the front…I responded that tho...