After a very long hiatus....

 I just purchased a new iMac to replace my eight year old machine. Had to update lots of software. Back to my old project which I love so much.

Havdalah 28 Shevat 5779

My favorite Shabbat ritual.

Havdalah 22 Tevet with Yeshiva bochurim

As badly as assimilation has ever affected us in our history, this is what insures our future generations.

Chanukah Lights

The Chanukah menorah is the symbol of our resistance to the efforts of our conquerors to force us assimilate, and eventually to lose our identity and uniqueness. The Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians, Syrian Greeks, Romans, Catholics, and Fascists all tried, but we're still here, thriving and driving the advancement of civilization towards the future and the coming of Moschiach.

Brit Milah - Yehudah Feldman Makes His Grand Entrance

An occasion for great simcha (joy) is the bris and naming of a new male child. It is said that the day a child is born is the day that G-d decided the world could no longer continue without him/her. Mazel tov to the Feldman family, am yisrael is alive and well!

Ari Fuld Rally

Ari Fuld was an American Israeli. He was a settler in Judea who was stabbed in the back by a Palestinian terrorist, and Ari subsequently shot him dead before his own life ended. He was intelligent and articulate, and we should be proud that our Jewish youth can look up to him as a role model.

There was a rally for school students on Wednesday, October 18th held on Second Avenue in front of the Israeli Embassy. Rabbi Avi Weiss and the Israeli consul Danny Dayon were the speakers. But it was the students who were the stars.

Bar Mitzvah Boy

A Jewish boy's bar mitzvah marks his coming of age. Although there is a ritual associated with it - putting on tefillin and a tallis, and being called to the torah for the first time - no ritual is actually necessary for it to be effected. It simply happens on the anniversary in the Jewish calendar of his birth. The rituals however, are a reason for celebration and simcha for the parents.