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The Jewish Voice, Page 5

LocaL happenings From the Rabbis from page 4

The separation of church and state was never supposed
Federation’s Jewish News • “Creating a Safer, More Informed Community that to be the rejection of religion. It was intended to serve
Magazine Now Available Stands Up to Hate,” an interview with Dr. Jonathan as a protection for all religions. As long as we dig our
Schanzer, Senior Vice President, Foundation for Defense of
heels into implementing a twisted interpretation of this
Via Podcast Democracies amendment, we are refusing to look up and be healed.
• “Building Bridges to Non-Jewish Faiths and Destiny is forcing us to face the errors of our ways and
Audiences around the world can now listen via podcast Communities,” interviews highlighting the Palm Beach to apply the true intent of our Founding Fathers — they
to episodes from Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County’s County Remembrance Project too were telling us to look up!
popular weekly TV news magazine show, mosaic, which • “The Impact of Birthright Trips Resuming,” an interview Indeed, through committing to a better, brighter, and
explores issues affecting local and global Jewish communities. with Birthright Co-Founder Charles Bronfman and Birthright more enlightened tomorrow we will be able to emerge
On the heels of recently concluding its 43rd season, Vice President and Chief Program Designer Zohar Raviv, as from the wounds and scars of today:
which airs on WPBF 25 News, mosaic is now available well as Birthright participant Yosh Miller In the early days of the founding of the modern State
just about everywhere people listen to podcasts, including The mosaic podcast can be heard on the most popular of Israel, in 1956, a group of Arab terrorists infiltrated the
Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pandora. The program podcast platforms including: Amazon Music, Apple podcasts, fledgling village of Kfar Chabad in Israel and mercilessly
provides audiences exclusive interviews with some of the Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Listen Notes, Player murdered five young yeshiva students and their teacher
Jewish world’s most notable figures and addresses some of FM, Podcast Addict, Podcast Index, Podchaser, Spotify, and during evening services. Their blood-stained prayerbooks
the most critical issues and causes of the Jewish community, Stitcher. are still open to the page they were on to this very day.
including the rise of antisemitism and the dramatic growth Each January through April, mosaic airs on Sundays at As the village descended into grief and mourning for
of the Jewish community in the Palm Beaches. The show 11:30 a.m. on WPBF 25 (ABC affiliate). The show is made the week of shiva, they turned to the Rebbe for guidance
is hosted by Palm Beach County community leader Susan possible by generous underwriters. and consolation. Inexplicably, there was no response
Shulman Pertnoy. from the Rebbe for three painful days. He had been
Episodes include the following topics and more: How to Work Out locked in his room secluded for that entire time. When
• “Strengthening Our Collective Jewish Peoplehood,” an he eventually emerged, he sent a telegram with just
interview with Michael Oren, author, historian, and former Without Excuses three deeply empathetic words: “Behemshech Habinyan
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. tenuchamu — You will only find healing through the
• “Coming to the Aid of our Global Israel Family,” an It’s all too common for those embarking on a regular continued building.”
interview with Amira Ahronoviz, CEO of Jewish Agency exercise routine to skip a planned workout for one reason Inspired by the Rebbe’s telegram, the survivors
for Israel rolled up their sleeves and turned their mourning into
action. Within days, they celebrated the ground-breaking
of a highly sophisticated printing press called Yad
HaChamisha (the Memorial of the Five students), which
ultimately printed hundreds of thousands of Torah books
in multiple languages while providing jobs for new
immigrants. It is still in operation to this day.
Our commitment now to welcoming G-d into our lives
will not only set the stage for a brighter tomorrow, it will
also give us the strength, purpose, and direction to help us
to withstand the challenges and wounds of today. Tough
times don’t last; tough people do.
Rabbi Dovid Vigler is spiritual leader at Chabad of
Palm Beach Gardens and host of the Jewish Schmooze
Radio Show. Email him at rabbi@jewishgardens.com.
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