by Rabbi Yisroel Roll | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
My family and I lived in London, England for nine years. We lived in London’s fashionable West End near Hyde Park–200 yards from Princess Diana’s Kensington Palace. On November 29, 1996 I went into my local barber shop, Lucas’ Hair Salon and...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
In the wee hours of Friday morning, November 2, thousands of Orthodox Jews across the United States gathered around telephone speakers and amplifiers in yeshivot, synagogues and homes to join, in a small way and at a great distance, a funeral taking place thousands of...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Every Jewish holiday is special in its own way, but the one we most recently celebrated, Shavuos, is particularly unusual: it has no specific “active” observances, nothing like Passover’s seders and matzoh or Sukkot’s sukkahs and “four...
by Nechama Stampler | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Israel may be out of Lebanon, but some Israelis, unfortunately, are not. On a fateful night in June 1982, a battalion of young Israeli soldiers there suddenly found itself in the middle of a heavily fortified Syrian encampment. Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were killed...
by Shamai Goldstein | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
The author is a member of Hatzalah – an Orthodox volunteer ambulance service. I write this with thanks to the G-d, that I am able to write it, and not be written about! As we were dispatched to the Twin Towers for a fire, not knowing what we were getting into, I...
