By Rachel Zamist | May 13, 2021
Prior to getting words to paper, thoughts ruminate in my mind for many weeks. It took some time to formulate, and a couple of days of procrastinating, to flesh out the comparison of a board game to my sefira chart and, really, my life. Often words flow easier when there is some conflict, either personal or national, that I’m trying to make sense of. When I heard the news of the tragedy in Meron, my immediate selfish reaction was, “How is this going to affect what I had in mind to write?”
Initially I sort of felt numb and couldn’t relate to any of the news. Hours later the news hit closer to home as the names of the kedoshim were names I recognized.
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RCBC Hosts Teaneck Tehillim Rally for Israel By Ellie Wolf | May 19, 2021
On Sunday, Erev Shavuot, the RCBC held a community gathering in support of Israel’s response to the terrorist Hamas attacks, to beseech Hashem for his protection of those in Israel and everywhere. Approximately 1,000 people gathered at Votee Park in Teaneck to recite Tehillim and hear words of chizuk from community rabbanim and leaders.
Given the short notice and the fact that publicity was conducted primarily through social media; and because Sunday was the eve of a two-day Yom Tov, the turn-out was impressive.
The program was coordinated at the park by Rabbi Zev Goldberg of the Young Israel of Fort Lee, who is president of the RCBC. He spoke briefly of the seriousness of the situation in Israel and our faith in the protection and management of Hashem. Congregational rabbis from many of the shuls in the area then led the gathering with recitations of Tehillim. The Tehillim
A chronicle of faith, hope, survival, and blessings against all odds: letters of hope and faith from Rav Zalman Sorotzkin s children
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The central train station in Vilna was eerily quiet on that chilly day toward the end of 1940, in the early days of World War II. The city, along with the rest of eastern Poland, was occupied by Soviet forces, and for the time being, the 55,000 Jews living in the city, in addition to another 15,000 Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland, were safe. In a few months, Germany would attack Soviet forces in Eastern Europe and occupy Vilna, creating a ghetto and sealing the fate of its Jews. But, then, there was still a possibility of escape.