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 Yaakov Ort is contributing Senior Editor at Chabad.org and editor of a number of books on Chassidic thought, including Daily Wisdom, vols. II and III (Kehot) and Wisdom to Heal the Earth (Ezra Press/Kehot).
Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn’s enduring faith amidst suffering and loss
Every author needs to have a primary audience in mind before setting out to write. The ultimate test of the effectiveness of the work, regardless of the genre, is whether or not the writing was an agency for change in the lives of his or her target reader...
A commitment to lifelong learning leads to remarkable birthday synchronicity.
Two terrorists killed, one captured; 11 Israelis injured
As motorists fled on foot or took cover in their vehicles on Thursday morning, three heavily armed terrorists roamed between cars stuck in traffic outside a checkpoint near Jerusalem. Matan Elmaleh, 26, from Ma’ale Adumim, was killed in the attack, which ...
Terrorist, a resident of eastern Jerusalem, shot dead at the scene
JERUSALEM—Two people were killed and four others injured on Friday in a terrorist shooting at a bus stop in southern Israel. One of the victims, a 20-year-old man, succumbed to his wound after being rushed to a local hospital. The Magen David Adom emergen...
‘Refusenik’ maintained his Judaism in Soviet Union and as then as a musician in America
Chazan Tzvi Hersh Tsatskis was a cantor, pianist and choral leader who maintained his Jewish faith in the Soviet Union despite persecution and brief imprisonment. Following emigration to the United States in 1970 as a young refusenik, he became a synagogu...
Panicked residents and schoolchildren rush to bomb shelters and safe rooms
JERUSALEM—At least one Israeli was killed in the northern city of Safed this morning and eight injured in a massive missile barrage from Lebanon that reached across a wide swath of northern Israel, according to initial reports from emergency medical teams...
Relatives recently committed to Shabbat candle-lighting and tefillin
As soon as word spread early Monday morning that Israeli hostages Louis Har, 70, and Fernando Simon Marman, 60, were rescued from the second floor of a building in the center of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, so did accounts of recent commitments made ...
Tech executive and author addresses annual Shluchot conference in New York
Michal Oshman appeared to be a woman who had everything and feared nothing. As a London-based senior leadership and development executive at some of the world’s leading social media companies, the Tel Aviv-born, happily married mother of four, says she di...
Lawyer, government official and China scholar Moyshe Silk on his new translation of “Kedushas Levi”
Throughout his life, Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk has been immersed in three extraordinarily diverse civilizations and the languages that are foundational to them. Raised in a Jewish home in Chicago, his first language was English. A mastery of the language ser...
IDF major fulfills a mission started by the Rebbe during the 1982 Lebanon war
JERUSALEM—While a hard, cold rain was falling on Gaza at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24, Israel Defense Forces Maj. Ezzy Morgenstern got a text message at his home in Yavniel, in Israel’s north: “Get everything ready. You’re going in today.” After months of...
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