To the best of my knowledge, Christmas Eve coincides with erev Chanukah four times every one hundred years. This is one of them. Coincidence aside, I believe that there is much that we Jews can learn, as so many in this world celebrate a virgin birth, part and parcel of Immaculate Conception. Christmas is a time for celebration. The “faithful, […]
I very much doubt that any of you reading this article will be surprised to learn that an Israeli grassroots initiative is underway to raise 600,000 Israeli Shekel or $150,000 dollars in order to purchase emergency aid including food, medication and supplies for refugee Syrian children. Within the first forty- eight hours after launching the campaign, over a quarter of […]
I highly doubt that I was the first Jew or even the first rabbi to go to the computer to see what information I could get on former astronaut and Senator John Glenn and the Jews. No, I did not learn that John Glenn was a staunch supporter of Israel. And no, I did not learn that John Glenn peppered […]
It was more than with a modicum of interest that I read about Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz setting forth together with his wife Moussie and their two toddler children from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the bastion of Lubavitch Hassidim to serve as the sole rabbi of the great state of South Dakota, where he will minister to its Jewish population of 1,200 […]
