Jewish Life
“We have a sense, I think, of paying a long overdue debt to these men,” Shalom Lamm, the chief historian of Operation Benjamin, told attendees about Pfc. Adolph Hanf and Pvt. David Moser.
Iranian agents reportedly gave a Georgian drug dealer $200.000 to kill the Chabad envoy in Baku.
Due to high demand, the Priestly Blessing will be held on two separate days for the first time.
The former Arkansas governor, a staunch supporter of Israel, visited the site in Queens together with his wife, Janet.
The trespassers, who broke a glass door to enter the building, told police they were there to film a music video.
Maj. (res) Yossi Levi calls for greater ultra-Orthodox enlistment, warning that increasing hostility to the religious group could widen the military draft gap.
A spokesman for Chabad told JNS that the worldwide Jewish movement “absolutely” does not involve itself in the politics of the Jewish state.
“It’s important for me to help other Jews have the chance to experience the holiday on this level,” the Chabad rabbi told JNS.
“We want them to know they are Jews and know what Judaism and Israel really are.”
“Anyone who thinks they can lie to us and get away with it, should think twice,” the special agent in charge of the FBI Boston division stated.
“It was a complete shift in the trajectory of my life. It reinforced my time and energy around the Jewish people,” said Jenn Zussman of Maryland, who was on the inaugural trip in December 1999.
The tomb of Rav Ashi, a Babylonian sage, is located inside an IDF military outpost on the Blue Line between the two countries.
