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The Great Call
THE GREAT CALL To All Diaspora Leaders We, the undersigned: Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich, former Prisoner of Zion; Rabbi Shalom Gold, Co-Founder, Union of Rabbis for Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael”; Rabbi David Samson, YTA Torah Academy High Schools; Meir Indor, Founder of...
What is your Tafkid (Mission in Life) and how do you fulfill that and support your Family?
I worked as a head hunter for 5 yrs placing trust officers in banks throughout the US over 20 yrs ago. I don't work with CVs or ResumesI moderate a Facebook group: Israel Chesed Opportunities Job Opps in Israel http://www.facebook.com/groups/313101908806188/ My...
Galut and Geula, Part 7
Geula and Galut, Part 7 The Surest Sign of Redemption In the Gemara, in tractate Sanhedrin, there is a teaching concerning the end of the exile: “Rabbi Abba states: There is no greater sign of the revealed end of the exile than this, as it says, ‘And you O mountains...
Courting Israel
Chazal teach that the Land of Israel is acquired with suffering, which is not the best sales pitch for aliya. Moving and acclimating to any new environment is difficult, but it seems moving to Israel has a built-in spiritual requirement for the transition to be...
TeleMedicine Job Opp in Israel
Are you a US Board Certified Doctor interested in making Aliyah or do you know one?Do you have a specialty that can be practiced via TeleMedicine?There is a professional organization looking for US Board Certified Physicians who have an existing relationship with a...
Galut and Geula, Part 6
Galut and Geula, Part 6 The Holiness of Medinat Yisrael At the time of the Torah giant, the Gaon of Vilna, the Jewish People had managed to survive 1500 years of exile without the living Soul of the Nation shining in our midst. Except for the great Torah giants of...
Living Among the Secular and Irreligious
Opportunities arise, and opportunities vanish: We must seize the opportunity immediately when it presents itself to us. Often, the chance will not present itself again in the future. No matter how unrealistic the scenario seems at that time, and that maybe, a better...
Idol Worship in Exile
The Rabbis taught: One should always dwell in Israel, even in a city that is mostly heathen, and not dwell outside of Israel, even in a city that is mostly Jewish – for anyone who dwells in the Land of Israel is likened to one who has a God, and anyone who dwells...
Galut and Geula, Part 5
Galut and Geula, Part 5 The Holy Soul of Zionism Our last few essays have dealt with the vast difference between Jewish life in the exile and Jewish life in the Land of Israel, as the Jewish People rise from the “dry bones” of Galut to mega-powered nationhood in the...
Half-Emunah
Half-Emunah Here is an excerpt from a lecture of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda HaCohen Kook, of blessed memory, explaining to his students at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem how it can happen that Torah-observant Jews can turn their backs on the very foundation of the...
The dove is being called to return
וישלח את היונה וגו' ולא מצאה מנוח וגו': יהודה בר נחמן בשם רבי שמעון אמר אלו מצאה מנוח לא היתה חוזרת. ודכוותה "היא ישבה בגוים לא מצאה מנוח" (איכה א) – אלו מצאה מנוח לא היו חוזרים. ודכוותה "ובגוים ההם לא תרגיע ולא יהיה מנוח וגו'" (דברים כח) הא אלו מצאה מנוח לא היו...
The Suffering of the “Progressive” Jew
For all the different categories and stripes of Jews that exist and have existed throughout history, there are really only two that matter when you boil it all down: those who accept the divine origin of the Torah, the divine wisdom of the Sages, and the binding...
Baruch Dayan Emes
Should you use scare tactics to encourage aliya?
This article appears in this week's Jewish Press. On that note, I would like American Jews who believe they and their communities are perfectly safe to consider the following: If a Jew is driving somewhere in America and accidentally hits someone, and that person...
Ten demands for American Jews
My name is Jamaal. You have attempted to show your solidarity with us by issuing public statements. Did you think your words make any difference to us? That is an insult. Some of you have marched with us and chanted our slogans. Do you think we don't know that this...
