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From the blog of Dov Linzer at The Times of Israel

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Those who sow in tears, will reap in joy. (Psalm 126:5) I attended my first funeral when I was 19. The theme colour was purple. Hundreds of mourners from my IDF Givati unit were gathered to pay our final respects to one of our brothers-in-arms. After the appropriate prayers and psalms were rec...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Natan Sharansky has shown the world the power of faith and persistence. He sat countless days in solitary confinement, suffered in the communist KGB’s “punishment cell,” persecuted by the Soviet regime for his desire to live a free Jewish life in the land of Israel. Even someone with iro...

Dear friends and visitors of Block Island: What a year! Disease and death in numbers we could not imagine. Thousands of front liners put their lives on the line to save and succor strangers. Tens of thousands of others put their lives and all those around them in danger of the virus and death by selfishly and deliberately ignoring the science and the minimal precautions. We lived through a year in which we witnessed the savagery of murders of our fellow citizens; the reaction of the outraged and the insurrection of our very democracy. Through it all, our neighbors and communities found millio...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The Parsha in Chesed – Shvi’i Shel Pesach Rav Aryeh Levin, the famed Tzadik of Yerushalyim, like many other great men, was reputed to carry only small coins with him. This practice was not only due to a modest lifestyle. Rav Aryeh was frequently approached by those asking for alms. Rav Ary...