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Former President Donald Trump visiting the Ohel, the kever of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on Monday. Rabbi Moti Seligson is instructing Trump on the appropriate text to recite. Page 124
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Insecurity Council BY LARRY GORDON
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t was erev Rosh Hashanah and most of our preparations for the New Year were done. In addition, we had also just completed the 25th anniversary issue of our publication, which is now distributed to Jewish communities in New York, New Jersey, and South Florida. Continued on Page 122
October 7: One Year Later BY YOCHANAN GORDON
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ctober 7th will probably be the most written about subject than any event we have endured in modern history, aside from the Holocaust. Clearly, our enemies had the designs to replicate that act of genocide; they just simply lacked the wherewithal. Initially, I was Continued on Page 120
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Happy Yom Kippur!
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BY SIVAN RAHAV MEIR
om Kippur, which is on the tenth of Tishrei, is considered the holiest and most important day in the Jewish year. In the Torah it is written: “Because on this day, there will be atonement for you, to purify you from all your sins, before G-d you will be cleansed” (Lev. 16:30). This is the day on which Moshe Rabbeinu came down from Mount Sinai with the second set of Tablets of the Covenant, having broken the first set of tablets when he saw the sin of the golden calf. Yom Kippur commemorates the day that the Children of Israel were given a second chance with the second set of Tablets, and so it became a day of atonement and forgiveContinued on Page 114
A Commemoration Of Sadness And Hope
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BY MALKIE GORDON HIRSCH MAGENCE
veryone has their own personal version of events when it comes to October 7th. Where they were, how they found out, how they were affected, how they were filled with doubt that something like this could actually happen. It’s the same with September 11th and how that day is seared in our minds forever. It’s the day we lost our innocence. The day we realized that, like our ancestors before us, those whom we thought were our friends are not to be trusted. Continued on Page 117
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