BREAKING: The Likud Party confirmed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will run for another term in Israel’s upcoming election.
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🚨BREAKING: Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister Eva Schloss has died at 96.
She was a leading Holocaust educator and leaves behind a legacy of combating antisemitism and prejudice.
May her memory forever be a blessing.🕯️
This 1942 colorized video of the train to Auschwitz hit me like a ton of bricks.
The banality of evil of the German SS officers, the Jews who have no idea what is awaiting them on the other side of this trip, the woman in a wheelchair.
Heartbreaking on so many levels.
Before Shabbat, 84-year-old Yevgeny Alexandrovich Bonder, a member of the Jewish community in Kherson, was buried. He died from severe injuries sustained during the russian shelling of Kherson.
He was a doctor. He worked in emergency services for 40 years. He was a man known to everyone because he was always ready to help when needed.
During the farewell ceremony, Chief Rabbi of Kherson Rav Yosef Wolf said: "Kherson is a city of people who live between sirens and funerals, between hope and fatigue, and this city is a city of indomitable people!"
Eternal memory to all victims of russian aggression!
NEW CHABAD CENTER: HADERA, ISRAEL
A former Buddhist-seeking, tattooed college student from a tiny Pennsylvania town now teaches Chasidic philosophy steps from the Mediterranean, guiding a fast-growing English-speaking community in Hadera, Israel.
Raised in a tiny town outside Pittsburgh — “6,000 people, and we were the only Jewish family,” he recalls — Rabbi Braslawsce grew up largely disconnected from Judaism. By high school, he was exploring meditation and Buddhism, searching for meaning he hadn’t found at home.
Everything shifted in college, when a Chabad rabbi began engaging him in deep conversations about Judaism and philosophy. Studying the weekly parsha exposed him to Chassidic thought for the first time, revealing the structure and spiritual depth he had been searching for elsewhere. He later studied in yeshiva and fully embraced Jewish life.
Myriam’s journey was no less remarkable. Originally from a semi-Bantu tribe with Jewish roots in Cameroon, she left Africa at sixteen, completed her conversion in France, and later moved to Israel. Even before they married, she had been teaching once a week in Hadera and felt a strong pull to the city. He wanted Brooklyn; she wanted Hadera. “We compromised,” Rabbi Braslawsce said. “Now we’re in Hadera — on shlichus.”
Together, their backgrounds uniquely position them to connect with the city’s growing English-speaking population — many new families drawn by good schools, affordability, and a calmer lifestyle than other Israeli cities.
Rabbi Dovid and Myriam Braslawsce moved to Hadera in March 2025 and began their activities under the guidance of Rabbi Yosef Butman of Chabad of Hadera. While the city’s Jewish population is a blend of Sephardic, Russian, Ethiopian, and French families, the Anglos have become an increasingly visible layer — many settling in Givat Olga, the seaside neighborhood the Braslawsces now call home.
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10 Kislev: R'Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1934). Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka & Chevron Yeshivos. One of the founders of the city of Chadera. Author - Levush Mordechai on Shas.