When Yitzchak Chaskelson creates a Kiddush cup, he knows he’ll never be able to replicate it. That’s because each of his silver items is handmade, chiseled and embossed from scratch, sometimes taking months, or even years, to complete.
Television newscaster Sivan Rahav and radio personality Yedidya Meir are the closest thing the Israeli chareidi world has to a celebrity power couple. For Israelis across the religious spectrum, they represent an island of positivity, ahavas Yisrael, and grounded values in a confused world where religiosity has been hijacked by a sensationalist media.
Moshe Arazi, 27, has Behcet’s syndrome — for him that means vasculitis, pericarditis, colitis, spinal fractures, a torn stomach, and impaired vision. He’s also adopted his wife’s six abandoned siblings. While doctors have given up, Rav Chaim sends him people for brachos… because a smiling Moshe knows Hashem will pull everyone through.
The Clevelander Rebbe zt”l wanted nothing more than to bring his Jewish brothers and sisters closer to the light of the Torah.
As modern-day musical shluchim from sunny California, Shmuli and Bentzi Marcus of 8th Day didn’t originally aim to carve out a contemporary niche within the heimish music world. True to their Chabad upbringing, their English-language rock style with its soul-speak lyrics was meant to target secular Jewish teenagers. That their music has captured a mainstream following might tell us something about ourselves — how we all want to connect with their message, their depth, and their indomitable spirit.
It might be little more than a stick and a wire, but getting an eiruv off the ground can be tricky as a tightrope walk.
