One of the outcomes of this AI era is a healthy skepticism. Whether its artificially generated or deliberately misconstrued or totally made-up – it has become much harder to take information at face value. Most sane people now question and … Read the rest
...There’s no way around this. The first Passover Seder night falls on Wednesday April 1st this 2026 year, and while not a Jewish tradition, there are bound to be April Fools jokes and references.
The Talmud says that Rava would … Read the rest
...Ah, if only there was a way to Pass-over the Iran chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz! Pun-aside, and beyond the geopolitics and economics behind this current events story leading up to Passover 2026 – there’s a rich Chassidic Passover … Read the rest
...During this “Roaring Lion” war with Iran, rumors spread online that Netanyahu was killed, so he showed up in a Jerusalem-area Sadaff coffee shop, where he was filmed, making a joke that he was “dying for coffee” and showing all … Read the rest
...In 1979 during and after the fall of the Shah of Iran, and the start of the Islamic Revolution, terrified Jewish Iranian parents were eager to get their children out. Chabad orchestrated airlifts of some 1800 children to New York. … Read the rest
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Each year for Shabbat 360, there’s a theme and a t-shirt, and for 5786/2026 the theme was X-Box 360 with the X transposed into an Alef and game covers as centerpieces with Hebrew lettering and thought-provoking gaming questions. (see the … Read the rest
Purim 5786/2026 is part of the 250 years since the American Revolution, and which is why we went with “A Revolutionary Purim” as a theme.
When thinking of a family costume along the lines of the American Revolution and Colonial … Read the rest
...Now and then you meet a person who is a face of a story you read or heard about. This past weekend I was down in Great Neck/Roslyn celebrating the Bar-Mitzvah of the son of alumnus, and I met the … Read the rest
...On this Shabbos before Purim 2026, as we look forward to “A Revolutionary Purim” theme at UAlbany this 2026 (as part of the 250-year commemoration) wanted to share this 1972 memory I heard from Mr. Feivel-Phil Chandler (who, along with … Read the rest
...Long before Glasnost or Perestroika, when the former Soviet Union was in its full Communist glory, Rabbi Dr. Alter Bentzion Metzger visited there along with an American Rabbinic delegation. (It’s been many years since I heard this from him, but … Read the rest
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