We welcome guest darshan, Member Yaakov Weiland, as he delivers the sermon on Shabbos morning, on the topic: “Judaism is Not a Spectator Sport: Get off the bench and start living it.”

Yaakov has an MSW from Fordham and practices Life Coaching. For his articles and audio classes, or to reach him, you can find him at yaakovweiland.com.

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Show up at the next court hearing of anti-semites.

On Tuesday, January 31st, at 9:00 AM, Matthew Mahrer and Christopher Brown are due in New York State Supreme Court, Criminal Term, 111 Centre Street, Manhattan, room 733, before Judge Diane Kiesel.  

The pair were arrested on November 18th at New York Penn Station after threatening on social media to attack an unnamed synagogue, as early as the next day.  Police confiscated from them an illegal gun, ammunition, a hunting knife, body armor, and a Nazi armband. 

Although Brown remains in jail, Mahrer, who lives around the corner from Cong. Ohab Zedek in Manhattan incredibly has been allowed out on bail, without even an ankle monitor.

(Hat tip: Matt Bobman)



The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one-third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities between 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany, an attempt to implement their "final solution" to the Jewish question. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust. 



(source: Wikipedia) 

Have a wonderful shabbos!

Rabbi Aaron D. Mehlman

Erev shabbos kodesh Bo 5783