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Enhance Your Tisha B'Av With This Powerful New Film!
 
Pillar of Truth  is the dynamic new film on the life and legacy of Rav Yaakov Weinberg zt"l, who made Torah accessible to Jews from ALL backgrounds. Find out why his brother Rav Noach Weinberg zt"l viewed him as his rebbe and the rebbe of Klal Yisroel. 

Click Here to watch the trailer, view the film, and listen to insightful audio shiurim on Tisha B'Av.  Email  TorahLegacy@gmail.com  to share this inspiring film with your community.
Rabbi Mordechai Becher Presents New Torah Safari Tour!
 
Rabbi Becher's new Torah Safari is now available. He accompanies groups on a Torah tour of a zoo or aquarium, speaking about halachic, philosophical and historical aspects of the animals that are on exhibit, some general remarks about nature, ecology, zoos and animal trivia. He can do the tour at any zoo or aquarium for various size groups, for beginner or advanced crowds. Rabbi Becher is also available for regular scholar in residence, shabbatons and lectures. The tour is inspirational, educational and fun - and is not your classic classroom/lecture type of learning.  
Please contact him at  [email protected] for more information and availability. 
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An Article from My Jewish Learning
 
For three millennia, Jewish charitable giving has been both guided and defined by a series of basic principles and motivations.   Continue Reading
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An Article from Aish.com

When news broke last month that Rep. Ilhan Omar was planning a trip to Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank with some of her congressional colleagues, I felt a subtle sense of hope.   Continue Reading

An Article from The Algemeiner

A New York Times editor is in trouble for what the Times calls repeated poor judgment on social media.   Continue Reading

An Article from JTA

Steny Hoyer, the longtime congressman from Maryland, is currently the Democratic Party's majority leader, one step below Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  Continue Reading

An Article from The Algemeiner

In recent months, most of the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, ever zealous for (bad) new causes, have displayed an oily sycophancy towards the Rev. Al Sharpton that is (or should be) shocking to behold.  Continue Reading
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An Article from Vos Iz Neias

Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz. The evil Dr Mengele took her mother away from her before her very eyes.  Continue Reading


Shortly after the weekend arrest of the terrorists responsible for last week's killing of yeshiva student Dvir Sorek in the West Bank, the commander of the squad that detained the killers described what happened in interviews with Israeli media.  Continue Reading
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An Article from The Forward

Residents of Jerusalem are taking to social media to note something strange - the city's population of stray cats appears to be going missing, The Jerusalem Post reported last week. Continue Reading


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Sadigora is important in the history of Hasidic Judaism. Before WWI, the Jewish population numbered over 5,000.  Continue Reading
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An Article from Vos Iz Neias
 
"Eisenmenger belonged to the class of insects which sucks poison even out of flowers," the 19th-century Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz wrote.   Continue Reading


An Article from Tablet

Why would anyone deny that they are anti-Semitic? Why is racism seen as wrong?  Continue Reading


Last week, the Associated Press ran a hit job on a successful American businessman. Continue Reading
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An Article from Aish.com
  
Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat stationed in Paris, went to extraordinary lengths to protect Iranian Jews from falling into the clutches of Nazi persecution. 



An Article from JTA

You know that thing when you pick up the leash and the dog runs to the front door, ready for his walk?   Continue Reading

An Article from Tablet

The James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx is one of those out-of-the-way places where America warehouses the casualties of its wars.  Continue Reading


This Monday, 18th of Av (August 19, 2019) will mark 90 years since the Hebron Massacre of 1929, part of a wave of riots that swept the Jewish  yishuv in Eretz Yisrael in the Summer of the Hebrew year 5689. 
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