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Perhaps you’ve seen the old video of Rabbi Meir talking about how he made aliyah with his family and volunteered for reserve duty with the IDF. He was too old at the time to serve as a regular enlisted soldier, so like all Israeli citizens, he joined the unit they felt best suited him.

Back in New York, Rabbi Kahane had founded a group called the...


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If you’re reading this on yom tov, then you know Shavuos is one great chag. We have everything packed into it. There are special prayers and liturgy recited in shuls, including the recitation of Megillat Ruth, a tale of transformation that we can learn so much from even today.

Not to mention that our meals are something out of the ordina...


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I strive every week to leave you, my readers, with an insightful idea, an important lesson, or perhaps a redeeming perspective based on the thoughts filtering through my psyche during any given week. This week, in honor of Shavuos, I thankfully received a message that I plan on laying out here in the coming sentences and paragraphs. However, the vessel through which it is bei...


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Colel Chabad celebrates bar mitzvah for 125 orphans

Mendy Tuito, Ariel Ochana – Tzvaim Hafakot

In a particularly emotional bar mitzvah celebration that took place in Jerusalem this week, 125 boys who lost their fathers celebrated together in a series of events coordinated by the Colel Chabad organization. Originally scheduled to take...


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Yachad Shabbaton

More than 270 teens, young adults with disabilities, Yachad staff, and student volunteers from New York, New Jersey, and Baltimore came together at Camp Kaylie for Yachad’s Spring Leadership Shabbaton, a weekend centered on inclusion, friendship, and Jewish leadership. Yachad, the Orthodox Union’s internat...


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