THE POWER OF A JOKE… When you have a personal connection to a story, it always makes the impact greater. There were two brothers in Monsey NY, Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yechiel Tauber, both community leaders who worked together for the sake of the growing Jewish community. Reb Azriel was […]
Daily Archives: February 25, 2020
It happened one Purim in the early 1980’s when Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz –a.k.a. Schwartzie — was working as a college campus Rabbi at UCLA [the University of California in Los Angeles]. He was pushing for students to hear a public reading of the Megilah [Scroll of Esther], but not a […]
Turnabouts – A Story for Purim
Ascent’s 37th Annual Tu Bi’Shvat Seder Braving one of the coldest nights in Tsfat this winter, 45 celebrants from various parts of the world joined together at Ascent with a very warm spirit, to celebrate New Year for the Trees, led by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles – for the 37th year. […]