Pigeons. Savannah. 1977. In one of my most vivid childhood memories, we are on a family trip to Savannah – I am ten years old – my father is yelling at me because I borrowed his camera and filled the remainder of the 35mm roll of (expensive) film – with photos of pigeons. Jerusalem. …
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We miss you guys too! Travel to Israel has been very limited since before Purim; sadly, it doesn’t seem like this will be changing any time soon. Around the world, people are experiencing a deep longing for Eretz Yisra’el and its special kedusha and beauty. The Panoramic Sukkah helps Jews around the world bring Israel…
In honour of the Besht’s special day, here’s a beautiful Ba’al Shem Tov story about Sukkot. One Sukkot the leaders of the Medzhybizh misnagdishe community came to visit the Ba’al Shem Tov in his sukkah. In the fashion of Talmudic scholars, they examined the sukkah, they measured the sukkah, they debated the sukkah – and…
Imagine, if you will, two extremely improbable and rare events – the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series and simultaneously being in Israel and Wrigley Field. In what seemed to be a redemptive moment in history, both these events took place in October 2016. The first one, you’ve probably heard about, but the second took…