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  • Thank You for Your Protection

    08/01/2006 4:36:35 PM PDT · by Salem · 31 replies · 1,910+ views
    Chabad.org ^ | 01 August, 2006 | Avraham Berkowitz
    This morning as the sun rose over Jerusalem, my wife Leah gave birth to a beautiful baby girl at the Hadassah Medical center. A few hours later I drove to the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi where my wife's parents live.After packing several personal items that my wife will need for her hospital stay, I set out to drive back to Jerusalem. As I passed the central bus station in Kiryat Malachi, I saw an Israeli soldier waiting to get a ride. I rolled down the window and asked him where he needed to go. He said his...
  • A 'mensch' for prime minister - On the 90th anniversary of Menachem Begin's birth

    08/07/2003 12:48:13 PM PDT · by yonif · 1 replies · 291+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Aug. 7, 2003 | Yehuda Avner
    On the 90th anniversary of Menachem Begin's birth - a fond recollection of Shabbat in his company The weather in Jerusalem was unusually warm and naturally breezy that Shabbat afternoon, adding spice to the smell of poplar and pine that always fills Rehavia in high summer. Under a blue sky streaked with tangerine wisps of cirrus that heralded the onset of sunset, tourists, soldiers, yeshiva boys, neighbors, and even casual passers by, lined up at the prime minister's gate waiting their turn to enter. Menachem and Aliza Begin were hosting an open house, a tradition they had maintained for the...