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he American airstrike assassination of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad early on Friday follows a major miscalculation on the part of Tehran in the decision to up the ante against the United States. While the extent of Iran’s response is not yet clear, military planners in the region, including in Israel, will need to prepare
for the most severe scenarios. Even though Iran may seek to launch a calculated retaliation, which would exact a price without going to war, no one can be sure of where events will go next. Indications of Iran’s intent to escalate in the region were already apparent in late November, when U.S. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, the head of the military’s Central Command responsible for the
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A Hate Crime In My Hometown
The Siyum HaShas and The Survivors’ Talmud By Gwen Horowitz
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Qassem Soleimani receives a medal from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (source: Wikimedia Commons)
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he Survivors’ Talmud is an edition published in the United States Zone in Allied-Occupied Germany at the request of Holocaust survivors in the displaced persons camps. At the Rabbi Mordecai Terebelo, Menahel 13th Siyum HaShas, at Politz Hebrew Academy and rabbi held on January 1 at at Congregation Ahavas Torah, MetLife Stadium in New examines the gemara together with Jersey, the siyum was his students. made by Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky using a volume was an overflow crowd of from this printing. More than nearly 20,000 people at the 90,000 people were present at MetLife Stadium, and there CONTINUED ON P. 26
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’ve driven down Forshay Road in Monsey hundreds of times. Having grown up in Monsey less than two miles from there, I’ve traveled that road on countless occasions during the course of my lifetime. However, as I drove down Forshay Road on Sunday afternoon, December 29, things were noticeably different. News trucks lined both sides of the street, TV reporters were doing live interviews, and there were hordes of people walking in various directions. Approximately 15 hours earlier, on Motzei Shabbat, December 28, a man walked
into the home of Rabbi Chaim Leibish Rottenberg as people were gathered there to celebrate the seventh night of Chanukah. After entering the rabbi’s home, he unsheathed a large machete and began stabbing people, seriously wounding several of them. The attacker then attempted to enter Rabbi Rottenberg’s shul, Congregation Netzach Yisroel, which is located next door to the rabbi’s home, but thankfully those inside the shul heard the commotion from the house and locked the door, thereby preventing the attacker from getting in and likely saving lives.
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