What s In It For Me (Part I) | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss | 27 Iyyar 5783 – May 18, 2023
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Shalom Aleichem For Grownups | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Jack Abramowitz | 20 Iyyar 5783 – May 11, 2023
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The pure and holy nature of the victims, one after another, is now known to Jews all over the world
Shavuos is fast upon us, and I am once again reviewing Rav Aaron Lopiansky’s marvelous adaptation of Rav Yosef Ze’ev Lipowitz’s commentary Nachlas Yosef on Megillas Rus, entitled Seed of Redemption. I expect this review to be an annual event.
Rav Lipowitz’s principal theme is chesed, as set forth in the Midrash (Rus Rabbah 2:14): Rabi Zeira said, “This Megillah has no laws of ‘clean and unclean and no laws of prohibited and permitted.’ So why was it written? To teach me how much reward lies in store for people who perform deeds of kindness.”
Loud and Clear By Eran Feintuch | January 13, 2021
As the Chabad shaliach to the global deaf community, Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff sounds the call of Torah for those who could never before hear it
Photos: Ezra Trabelsi
You know those inspiring stories about someone who overcomes enormous challenges to accomplish the impossible? Well, that’s the kind of story I planned on writing about Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff. Rabbi Soudakoff, deaf from birth, left the LA public school system for yeshivah, eventually earned semichah despite being unable to hear the shiurim, and at the young age of 20, had already become a leader of the Jewish deaf in America. But Rabbi Soudakoff essentially waves all that away, because his new frontier is so much larger than his own personal victories. In his new role as the Chabad shaliach to the global deaf community, he’s bridging the chasm that often separates deaf Jews from normative Jewish life and bringing Yiddis