Fall 2003

And the voice called to me from heaven. “Dovi,” it said, in an oddly mechanical tone, “just where do you think you’re going? Get back on the Hutchinson River Parkway right away!”

My grandfather came to me and said, “Avi”-that was my name in those days-“Avi, you have to understand that our family is not without its blemishes.”

Judaism is about so much more than eating humus, serving in the IDF, and speaking Hebrew, however important these things may be.

A search of Nosair’s New Jersey apartment revealed his handwritten diary, which called for “jihad against the enemies of Islam” by “destroying the structure of their civilized pillars, their high world buildings which they are proud of.”

“My father! My real father is coming? Didn’t you say that my family is dead and that my parents would never be coming back?”

Thanks to the Internet, OK Kosher Certification is now able to offer more information and education on kosher issues than at any previous time in its 68-year history.

So I asked this rabbi what kind of a rabbi he is, and he said: Unorthodox. Unorthodox! Yes! The most descriptive term I have heard for real Judaism!

Every time we convert good will into good works-whether it’s by tutoring or mentoring a child, feeding someone hungry, building a house, or otherwise addressing a problem that’s bigger than ourselves-we strengthen the fabric of the country.

It’s Friday afternoon, which to a Lubavitch kid means it’s time for mivtzoim, or “campaigning.” Lubavitch schools typically end for the week by noon Friday, releasing students for an afternoon of street outreach.

The people who brought G-d to the world don’t have much to do with Him.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of modern Jewish life is how unimportant
G-d is to most Jews.

Once, tuna fishing thrived on the Pacific coast of the United States. Pioneered by adventurers straight out of the novels of Herman Melville and “Papa” Hemingway, it blossomed into a major industry, employing thousands and filling countless American lunchboxes.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, later known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, writes in his private journal concerning two traits that make a moral and productive human being: “fins” and “scales.”