Lose For Hope!

A program for Men and Women from the safety of your quarantined home.

A first-of-its-kind weight-loss challenge where each individual will strive to meet a healthy and responsible personalized weight-loss goal.

Hope is an extraordinary organization dedicated to assisting families that fall into financial stress due to a crisis.

Founded by Eli Goldring, who is assisted by Hope administrator Yehudah Susskind, this organization seeks to restore hope where there is none. Whether the crisis is a parent or child stricken with serious illness, therapies that are cost-prohibitive for a normal income family, or tragic petiros that have left families burdened with the costs of a funeral and burial, Hope steps in and says,

“We are here to help.”

Hope provides urgently needed assistance for a short period of time to provide some relief to the family and help them get back on their feet.

To register please visit our website at Hopeorg.org, or via WhatsApp

Whether you sign up or not, you can still be part of this great cause by Donating Here.

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For more information about the loose for hope campaign Email: Yehudas@hopeorg.org

Quarantine Magic Tricks

Asher to the Yatzar- Corona Chizuk

For more information please visit www.ashertotheyatzar.com

"Just a Few Bad Apples"

Simcha Leiner Fireside Kumzitz

Enjoy a live recording of a fireside Kumzitz in Simcha's backyard. Featuring some classic oldies as well as current hits.

Umipnei - Benzion Klatzko and Family - Music Video

The days between Shavuos and The Three Weeks are an interesting time. The joy is over and the mourning has not begun yet. What is our mission during this time period?

Rabbi Benzion Klatzko explains that the spiritual heights and longings that we experienced over Shavuos are meant to energize us to bring the geulah immediately! The mission is, through our Torah learning, to transform the three weeks from a time of sadness to a time of joy.

"Umipnei" was composed by Rabbi Klatzko as a prayer of longing for the Bais Hamikdash to be rebuilt. While these words are said during Shemona Esrei on Yom Tov, the longing that we have for Klal Yisrael to return to our home is to create a permanent state of joy and closeness to Hashem forever. While images speak louder than words, the combination of seeing Bais Hamikdash destroyed, and the next moment seeing the Jewish people returning to a rebuilt Yerushalayim, makes this song and video one of a kind!

Rabbi Klatzko sings this together with his three children, Gavriel (age 21), Azarya (age 16), and Luzy (age 12).

A Shabbat.com Production

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LIVE: A Night of Music and Inspiration - Ended!

Aid L’Shalom

Avraham Fried - Beri Weber - Mordechai Shapiro - Eli Marcus - Eli Levin - Modi

Protecting Synagogues From Vandalism Amid Riots

The Magen Am organization posted armed guards in front of Jewish institutions in Los Angeles to protect them from vandals and looters during the civil unrest that followed George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Shea Rubenstein - Hatei - Official Music Video

Despite all efforts, COVID-19 has engulfed the globe. We are confronted once more with the fragility of our lives, and again we are reminded of our common humanity and our common existence under one G-d. Growth in holiness doesn’t happen only when times are relatively calm and peaceful; often, we grow in G-d’s likeness when we are called to love in extraordinary ways, as surely, we are being challenged to do in these days.

International star Shea Rubenstein, together with youth sensation Noam Bornstein, propels audiences to beseech and seek out comfort and strength from the Almighty in their emotionally heartfelt song titled “Hatei,” which asks Hashem to have compassion for his nation and the world.

With the unique combination of Shea’s powerful bravado coupled with Noam’s soulful delivery, "Hatei,” is transformed into a powerful ballad, which strikes a chord to your inner soul. The song manages to faithfully portray the deepest emotions inherent in the lyrics, which originate from Daniel 9:18: “Turn your ear to us Hashem, open Your eyes and see our desolation, Have compassion for Your people ,have pity for Your inhabitants, please have mercy with Your great grace.” Despite being written in the fifth century, no doubt these words are applicable today more than ever.

Song composed by: Ari Schonfeld
Vocals: Shea Rubenstein
Produced by: Born Entertainment
Directed by: Zvika Bornstein
Director of photography: Avi Scheinberg

This song is available on all digital music platforms, including,

Apple Music  Google play  Spotify  Amazon

Simcha Jacoby - Sharei D'maos and Odcha

Zemer Orchestra and Simcha Jacoby are proud to present this beautiful video from a live chupah at the Embassy Grand in Toronto. The video highlights two stirring songs from that event - Oidcha and Sharei D'maos.

Both songs are a special tefilah that together encompass the range of emotions that we feel during a chupah. Oidcha is a song of thanks and gratitude to Hashem. Sharei D'maos is a heartfelt bakasha to Hashem to accept our tears with mercy.

Simcha Jacoby (based out of Lakewood, NJ) 848-373-6563 sjacobymusic@gmail.com

Song Credits:
Oidcha - composed by Eli Gerstner, sung by The Chevra Sharei
D'maos - composed by Anshie Friedman, sung by Avraham Fried

Reporting the Burned Wendy's to Minneapolis Police

One of three police stations in Minneapolis to be torched by protesters last week, prior to the national guard being deployed and ending the violence. Perhaps the person in the video below didn't get the memo.

Akiva Gelb - Mein Neshamah Zingt - Audio Sampler

Here's the Official Audio Preview for the new album "Mein Neshamah Zingt" by Akiva Gelb!

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Faulty Hydroxychloroquine Data: 'Political Hit Job'

A retracted study on hydroxychloroquine and news that the coronavirus may be mutating drew reactions Friday night from Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel.

"So Lancet, with egg on its face, a renowned journal, is suddenly withdrawing this study," Siegel noted during an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight"

Surgisphere Corp. was called into question.

A database by Surgisphere Corp. of Chicago was used in an observational study of nearly 100,000 patients that appeared May 22 in The Lancet, an influential medical journal. The study tied the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to a higher risk of death in hospitalized patients with the virus.

The validity of the data, however, has been called into question. The Guardian reports that Surgisphere “has so far failed to adequately explain its data or methodology” and says the company’s “handful of employees appear to include a science fiction writer and an adult-content model.”

Siegel now says the only question is whether the malaria drugs work.

"Does hydroxychloroquine actually work early in the game to help decrease the symptoms of COVID-19? It's been studied in the lab as an antiviral," Siegel said. "Medical, we don't know yet. Political, we know this is a political hit job."

Siegel also addressed that doctors at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) said Thursday that the coronavirus appears to be declining both in virulence and in its infection rate.

"The virus appears to be getting milder. People who are being admitted have milder symptoms. We heard the same thing out of northern Italy," Siegel said. "And guess what? I have been hearing the same thing from many doctors here in New York City over the past week or two."

Tzudik Greenwald - Adon Olam

Two years after releasing Hamavdil, a music video of Meir Martin Widerker’s Shabbos melodies, chazzan and baal tefillah Tzudik Greenwald joins forces again with the composer to create another single of Widerker’s latest piece Adon Olam.

While the musical soundtrack boasts a full-scale orchestra, producer Yoni Tzur chose to spotlight the wonders of creation that best illustrate the lyrics of this timeless song. To create this masterpiece, Tzur assembled a crew of winning photographers to collectively capture the beauty and essence of the song on film.

Complementing the vocal harmonies is Yisrael Bergman’s choir, along with Menachem Bristowsky, Gil Yisraelov and Moti Rotler.

Pet Lizard Plays with Phone

"My son Tyler set up his phone and Luna would sit there and watch it for long periods of time. He then decided to set his phone inside her tank and see how she would react to the bugs on the app. He then showed me her reactions and we got a kick out of it." January 27, 2019 / Kokomo, Indiana.