Current Events

2012

January 23: "Op-Ed from Beitar"

January 10: "To Speak in Your Name" (Rabbi Nachman Kahana)


Selected Archives

USA

A Lesson From Nine-Eleven

Kosher in Northern Alabama

Jimmy Carter, An Unwilling Bilaam

Traffic Jam in New Jersey

Tisha B'Av at the Democratic Convention 9-11:

What Happened to the 10?

A Soldier's Boots (9/11): Chabad of California on the terrorist attack against the United States of America

Priestly Misconduct

Bill Gates is Exploring Talmud!

Europe-Asia-Africa

"Reactions to the Mumbai Massacre"

  1. From Modia
  2. from the sister of Rivka Holtzberg in Tsfat
  3. from Chabad -- a link to four videos
  4. "Ascent and the Mumbai Massacre": update

Chinese Organ Transplants

A Preventive Cure for Aids

At the Nobel Awards

Chasidic Prediction of the Tsunami, Sixty Years Ago

Report from Phuket, Thailand

Shofar in Saddam's Palace

Pesach Seder in Iraq

A Divine Wind in Iraq

A Letter From Sweden

A New Shul in a Muslim Country

Israel

Honey and Cell Phones in the Holy Land

Kosher Kabbalah for Non-Jews?

Sweetening the Judgments on Jerusalem

Modern Judaism

The Expulsion from North Shomron according to Kabbala

The Expulsion from Gaza according to Kabbala

The Left Wing and Right Wing Agree!

A Haredi Hit Movie

Rav Kaduri: After the Sharon Government...

Abu Mazen and Safed

Roadmap to Where?

Ilan Ramon of blessed memory

The Jewish Way to War (photo)

The Jews and Hebron

Jewish War Policy

The Real Palestinians

Don't Worry, Mr. Bush

Arab Peace Movement

Upset with the Jews, As Usual The Truth From Oklahoma

Stop Deceiving the Arabs!

That S...ty Little Country

Dr Laz in Israel and On Israel

The Sabbath and the Kibbutz

Religious Persecution in Jerusalem

 

South America

"Sinkhole in Guatemala City a few days before parshat Korach!" -- An extraordinary, almost unbelievable, yet corraborated and famous photo from the time of year of this Torah reading.

 

The Torah and the Newspaper

The Day the World Changed (Vayelech, 9/11)

Standing up to a Superpower (Lech Lecha)

Peace Through Strength (Pinchas)

Leadership Heritage (Chukat)

The Power of Commitment (Baha'alotecha)

Jerusalem Day (Bamidbar)

Devorah the Judge (Beshalach)

Brother Esau, Cousin Ishmael (Vayishlach)

Seeing and Believing (Chaye Sarah)

2006: The War

September 6: A Kabbalistic View on How to Prevent War

August 11: Ascent War Campaigns in the North and South

August 10: The Mystical Secret Behind the Attack on Safed and the North

August 10: A Kabbalistic View of Israel’s War with Hizbullah

August 7: The Elephant in the Room, the War, and the Saintly Ari

July 19: House of Director of Ascent damaged by terrorist rocket (expanded)

July 17: Bombed in Zefat! - an Ascent staff member's report