Every year Bet El Institutions hosts a pop-up family matzah baking factory. Jews from all over Israel travel to Bet El to bake their own handmade matzah to use at their Seder meal. See below for photos and videos provided by Yishai Fleisher, international spokesperson of the Hebron Jewish community, who participated in the matzah baking with his family last night.
by Hillel Fendel, based on articles by Nitzan Kedar and Ze'ev Kam in B'sheva
The national elections for Knesset and (indirectly for) Prime Minister of Israel are only two weeks away – and we may actually assume with some basis that this one will be the last one for about four years. If this in fact happens, this would be quite an accomplishment, as the current campaign is the fourth in two years – practically unheard of in the history of Western democracies.
On what is based the assumption that this election might actually produce a stable government coalition? Well, there are two possibilities: Either Netanyahu's Likud, together with Smotrich's Religious-Zionism party, the hareidi parties, and Bennett's Yemina party, can form a narrow government of 61 MKs - or they cannot. If the former, the game is over and the anti-Bibi-ites will have lost again.
Check out this 25-second video showing the current stage of construction of the IDF Prep Academy!
Kabbalistic Twist on Vayikra
Baruch Gordon looks in the Kabbalah to discover why the last letter of the first word of this week's Parshat Vayikra is smaller than the others. (Hint: it has to do with the Land of Israel)
How Is Living in the Diaspora Idolatry?
Baruch Gordon examines the two rectifications of idolatry: Shabbat and the Land of Israel.