This week is a very special week in Israel. It actually began last Thursday with Holocaust Remembrance Day. As I was listening to the stories of these survivors as they were interviewed on television, I could not help thinking how vital it is that we listen to these stories, that we absorb their messages.
On May 29, 2001, Gilad Zar, a security officer for the Samaria Regional Council and a founder of the community of Itamar, tragically joined the long list of thousands of terror victims who were slaughtered during the Second Intifada.
Beste Vriend, De Joodse geschiedenis is één lang nationaal verhaal van onzekerheid. We weten nooit wat de volgende dag of het volgende jaar zal brengen. Eeuwenlang waren we als een lam tussen … Read more
Liebe Freunde, Die jüdische Geschichte ist eine lange nationale Geschichte der Unsicherheit. Wir wissen nie, was der nächste Tag oder das nächste Jahr bringen wird. Jahrhunderte lang waren wir wie ein Lamm, das unter 70 Wölfen umherwandert. Wir trugen … Read more
So many of the challenges that the leaders and the people of Israel faced in the time of Samuel, Saul and David, are so similar to the challenges we face today in the modern State of Israel.
As the holiday of Passover approaches our hearts and thoughts turn to our neighbors in Samaria. Many families are struggling to make ends meet as the war has interrupted employment and salaries and taken many fathers away from their families for long periods of time.
This week, Shmuel explores how oil is more than just a physical substance—it represents the connection between the earthly and the divine.
Just over a century later, a group of devout pioneers sharing the same love and passion for the Land of Israel, founded a new community just north of Jerusalem. Drawing their inspiration from Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira, they named it “Abir Yaakov,” the same venerated title that was used to address the late Rabbi during his life. Subsequently renamed “Kochav Yaakov,” (“Star of Jacob”), the community has absorbed many Jews who, like Rabbi Abuhatzeira, left their respective countries of birth to live in the Land of Israel.
As we watched the return of what we thought were the bodies of four beautiful Israelis, we wept with the families and with all of Israel. Shiri Bibas and her two gorgeous red-headed children, Kfir and Ariel — their story and their pictures traveled the world and became the symbol of the evil and cruelty of the Hamas terrorists.
On April 4, 1968, Rabbi Moshe and Miriam Levinger, a visionary couple, registered themselves and dozens of others to stay at Hebron’s Park Hotel. Just ten months after the People of Israel liberated Hebron and the rest of the Biblical Heartland during the Six Day War in 1967, this dedicated group excitedly planned to hold the city’s first Passover Seder in several decades.
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