Earlier this week, actor, proud Jew, and occasional snowman (Olaf from Frozen) Josh Gad tweeted: “It never stops breaking my heart how easily antisemitism comes to so many. And how difficult it seemingly is for people to speak out against it. I will stand up against bigotry of all kind from Islamiphobia to racism. Wish […]
New York City, Los Angeles, Lima, St. Louis, Melbourne, Miami, Manchester, Chicago, Cleveland, Winnipeg, Atlanta, Toronto, Tokyo, Passaic, Tucson, Lexington, Vancouver, Montreal, Sydney, London, Milan, Paris, Edmonton, Germany, South Africa, Belgium. From the news I’ve read and through talking to our fans, since Hamas launched its missile assault on Israel over a week ago, Jews all over the world are being […]
In the last 3 days, the terrorist organization, Hamas, has fired over 1000 missiles into civilian communities throughout Israel. Supporters of Hamas (and they include the people who say, “I don’t support Hamas, but…”) would have you believe this is just about Jews “evicting” Arabs from their homes and Arabs not liking that. But there […]
Watching the horror in that holy alley of death and hearing the harrowing details of how it happened – there is a glaring lesson for ME, and I’m sharing in case you relate to it too… There is no way we can understand and know why this tragedy happened – we have no nevuah – […]
As the Jewish world continues to mourn the calamitous events that occurred in Meron last Thursday night on Lag B’Omer, leaving 45 dead and hundreds wounded, there are a variety of responses pouring out – many of them healthy and comforting and some of them less healthy. We, as a people, are no strangers to […]
Several times each day, we describe God in our prayers as a shome’a tefila, One who hears prayers. “Hear our voice, Hashem, our God…accept our prayers with compassion…don’t turn us away empty…Blessed are You, Hashem, Who hears prayer.” This blessing of the Amidah prayer paints a nice, neat picture of the relationship between our prayers […]
