The rabbi of Chabad of Poway, who was wounded in last month’s deadly shooting attack at the synagogue near San Diego, performed an impromptu bar mitzvah ceremony in the office of his plastic surgeon, Chabad.org reported on Tuesday.
When Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein discovered that Dr. Yale Kadesky, the son of Holocaust survivors, had never put on tefillin, he visited the doctor in his San Diego area office and helped him don the Jewish prayer item, a mitzvah performed by Jewish males ages 13 and above.
Dr. Kadesky has been treating the rabbi, who suffered injuries to both his hands and lost a finger in the April 27th attack.
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The story of a restaurant in Lakewood that put up an Israeli flag on Yom Ha’atzmaut made headlines last week when rumors began to spread that the head of hechsher certifying the store had threatened to pull the hashgacha if the flag was not removed.
Whether or not the rumors were true, the story caused a stir, with questions about the authority of hechsherim and the legitimacy of Zionist holidays becoming the hot topic. For me, the discussions clarified a similar situation that took place just a few moths prior.

Two years ago, Rav Menachem Perl, rov of Israel’s Fire and Rescue Commission, ruled that although beards interfere with the proper sealing of air masks, firemen with beards need not shave until the level of danger involved was determined.
This year, Rav Perl announced an interim protocol allowing firemen to shave the area adjacent to the neck during Sefirah, since, halachically speaking, it is not part of the beard.
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Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin is on his way to Israel this week, where he will spend his Lag Ba’Omer at the kever of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron.
This is the second trip to Israel for Rubashkin since his release from prison in December of 2017. Sholom Mordechai will speak at a few yeshivos during his trip, including Rabbi Fisher’s yeshiva in Moshav Mattisyahu.
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Hundreds of people participated in a levayah Tuesday for hundreds of bones that were discovered in a burial cave near Yericho, dated to the time of the Second Beis Hamikdash. The bones were scattered outside the cave, which had been bulldozed by Arabs who were doing illegal agricultural work.
The cave was found by hikers a few days before Pesach. The hikers were in the area of the Hasmonean Palaces, near Yericho, where they noticed the tractor work being done by Arab laborers in a protected archaeological area. When surveying the damage, the hikers discovered the dug up bones.
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Al Sharpton spoke at an event for Reform Jews and acknowledged how his “cheap” rhetoric stoked divisions with the Jewish community, publicly acknowledging his role for the incendiary rhetoric that helped fuel the deadly Crown Heights riots in 1991, which led to the death of Yankel Rosenbaum hy”d.
Without mentioning the Crown Heights riots specifically, Sharpton said he could have “done more to heal rather than harm.” And he said that all the public criticism he received paled next to the rebuke from Coretta Scott King, who was known for her closeness to the Jewish community. It appears to be the first time Sharpton has publicly shared the tale.

A delegation from ZAKA has flown down from Israel to participate in the search and identification of bodies in a mass grave identified in a building site over a former Jewish ghetto in the city of Brest on the Belarus border with Poland.
The grave was expected to yield above of 1,100 bodies, most of whom were shot in the head and many of them women and children.
“The sights are shocking to every Jewish heart,” ZAKA Executive Director Rabbi Tzvi Hasid said in a statement.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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