(Courtesy of the Orthodox Union) The Orthodox Union held an Oct. 7 commemoration at its headquarters on the one year anniversary of the brutal attacks.
It’s been a year since Oct. 7, a date etched into our collective memory, marked by horror, disbelief and a searing pain that can never
Federations, congregations, Hillels, JCCs and day schools gathered to mourn the tragic plague inflicted last year upon our loved ones in Israel, and through a
For many Jews, the past year began on Simchat Torah when a joyous holiday of celebrating the annual conclusion of the Torah readings turned into
In a fiery speech at Rutgers Chabad, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations commemorated the October 7 attack on Israel by declaring, “The days
This past September, we were reminded once more that sometimes God says no to our prayers. That was when we learned that the IDF had
For Noam Milman, coming to the large gathering at Rutgers University of students commemorating the Oct. 7 anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel was
Simchat Torah 1929 Rav Kook’s talmidim gathered in his yeshiva. It was Simchat Torah, but they wondered what the day would be like. The year
Each Sukkos, Rabbi Berel and Esther Raskin would host a big kiddush and Yom Tov get together in their sukkah with an open invitation to
How many times have we wished we could turn the clock back to October 6, armed with the knowledge we now possess? If only we
Where were you on the Saturday morning of October 7, 2023, Simchat Torah 5784? When did you first hear the devastating news from Israel? At
(This article was published in The Huffington Post on Oct. 6, 2011) Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It
