This week has marked the start of the Camp Gan Israel Summer Program and the Chabad Center has been hopping and popping all week with singing, sports, trips and lots of fun activities!
Thank you to our amazing counselors and staff members who are helping make this camp so much fun for the dozens of campers enrolled in the program.
A few weeks ago someone gifted me with a small jar of dried locusts from Israel which were supposedly Kosher.
Now while some Yemenite & other Sephardic Jews have traditions as to which locusts they can eat and are Kosher, as an Ashkenazi our tradition is that we don't eat them, not that I had any interest or craving to go near them.
Locusts are mentioned in the Torah on several occasions, including during the plagues in Egypt, in the laws of Kosher, and in a small conversation that is repeated over by the spies in this week's Torah portion of Shelach.
Ten of the twelve spies who had gone to check out the land of Israel, come back in a panic and cause mass hysteria and fear among the Jewish people. In one of the interesting lines… Read More »
David Zini was appointed as a General this week to the IDF top brass. He is a popular and well respected military leader from across the spectrum and many people were very happy that he was given this new leadership role.
