Wealth & Poverty

“I know you usually don’t buy a lottery ticket, but this time, you have to buy! It’s at $1.3 billion!” my friend told me Sunday morning after prayers. “Oh, sure,” I replied. “Usually, I don’t buy because the prize is so small—you know, just $150 million. ...

Mel Landow, whose largesse helped a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva find a permanent home, died last week at the age of 81.

An Israeli Cabinet member visited Colel Chabad’s packing center in Ashdod as the organization finishes preparations for a massive food distribution to benefit some 120,000 people living below the poverty line.

Safed has become a virtual ghost town in the last three weeks. Streets normally full of children are now practically empty, save for the occasional cat or dog. “Listen to the quiet,” said Rachel Chitrik, “Normally it would be so noisy...”