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Called to Torah
19+ hour, 2+ min ago (72+ words) New Jersey Hills Media Group Temple Beth Shalom in Livingston has recently celebrated multiple mitzvot.On Saturday, Sept 5, Ella Kessler, daughter of Ashley and Adam Kessler, and sister to Sadie and Evie, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah during the templeâÂ…...
True repentance must lead to inner transformation, moral reform: Aga Syed Hassan Mosavi Al-Safavi
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (95+ words) Budgam, Oct 09 (KNS): President of Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman-e-Sharie Shian, Hujjat-ul-Islam wal-Muslimeen Aga Syed Hassan Mosavi Al-Safavi, on Friday emphasised that true repentance requires more than verbal expressions of remorse, calling for sincere self-reflection, abandonment of sins and continuous moral…...
Shabbat candle lighting times for Israel and US
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (65+ words) Light Candles: 6:06 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 7:05 p.m. Light Candles: 6:41 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 7:40 p.m. Light Candles: 6:08 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 7:07 p.m. Light Candles: 5:34 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 6:49 p.m. Light Candles: 5:57 p.m. Light Candles: 5:44 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 6:50 p.m. Light Candles: 5:58 p.m. Shabbat Ends: 6:51 p.m....
Simchat Torah is the Antidote of Hevel
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (561+ words) since joy that’s generated by reading Torah texts is the greatest of the antidotes of hevel, vanity caused by fatal lack of breath, we celebrate after reading Kohelet — which discusses this — the festival of Simchat Torah, since the Torah enables…...
Creation, the People of Israel and the Torah
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (171+ words) Categories: Headline / Parsha / Torah October 8, 2026, 5 PM ET Rashi explains that the letter beis in the word “Bereishis” means that the world was created for the Torah. The Torah, which preceded the creation of the world, is referred to in Mishlei…...
Chabad Upper East Side Launches The Golden Center for 60 and Over
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (303+ words) More than 150 guests gathered in the Park East Ballroom on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Tuesday evening for the launch of the Chabad Golden Center, directed by Rabbi Yaakov Krasnianski. Full Story The Golden Center is directed by Rabbi Yaakov…...
Forgiveness is not impunity
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (665+ words) A STOLEN public peso can mean medicine a patient never receives, a classroom that never gets built, or a flood control project that fails when the rains come. We may forgive the person responsible. But forgiveness should not erase the…...
Sukkah brings tradition, community together
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (506+ words) An ancient Jewish tradition took center stage on the Newburgh waterfront Wednesday as residents gathered for a community celebration of Sukkot centered on unity and togetherness at the sixth annual Sukkah Fest. The festival has grown since it began six…...
The Great Presences
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (198+ words) Mountain, River, Stone, and Planet A mountain stands. A river moves. A desert holds. A stone endures. Many of humanity’s oldest and most durable ways of seeing have not experienced them as dead backdrop. They have approached them as great…...
Twelve Steps to Self-Forgiveness
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1154+ words) We might ask what kind of life is possible for someone after such self-destructive behavior. How can he move ahead knowing the harm he caused? He cannot reclaim the family he lost nor end the financial difficulty they all face....