“I’m holding tight…take them out now!” During the Seven Days of Mourning after the passing of the former chief rabbi of Israel, HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu, in 2010, former IDF general and Knesset member Mr. Effi Eitam came to Jerusalem to fulfill the mitzvah of comforting mourners. While there in the […]
Weekly Chasidic Story
“Who was the special stranger in the coach?” Everyone in town was dressed in their festive best in honor of the great occasion. Guests of exalted stature were arriving from everywhere in the region. Not every day, or even every year, did such a momentous event take place: The holy […]
A Whisper in Time – A Second Chance
“Do you promise that you won’t tell?” In New York City there is a program called ‘Released Hour’, in which any child who wants to can get released from public school once a week one hour early and go to participate in a class about his religion with a […]