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Prison is no place for a frum Jew.
It’s 6am and the bright lights turn on to wake up the inmates. Mordechai Freuchter* awakes and whispers “modeh ani” quietly,  terrified to begin another day.
Freuchter was wrongly accused of a crime months ago, and has since been awaiting his trial in jail. The trial is delayed because his family does not have the money they need for legal fees. Several prominent rabbis have vouched for Mordechai’s innocence, and expressed their horror that he remains in jail.
The young father of 5 walks down the prison hallway on the way to the cafeteria and a fellow inmate knocks his yarmulke off of his head. The inmates in the hallway laugh, taunting him.

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Neighbors in an Israeli town looked on in shock and horror not long ago, and police dragged a young religious father out of his home, and drove him away to jail. The man in question, as well as several rabbis, maintain that he has been falsely accused. His wife and five children were left behind in a state of shock and horror.

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When people hear that three of Shoshana and Dovid Stein’s four children are severely handicapped, they are always surprised.
“I would have never known!” they exclaim, wide-eyed and jaws open. “They’re just so…light, and always so happy.”
“My children give me the drive I need to keep going,” Shoshana told me with a wise glimmer in her eyes as she and I sipped on steaming glasses of mint tea on her Israeli porch last week.
“It is a zechus to be the parents of such special neshamas.”
I can see the wrinkles under the outer corners of her eyes and mouth, evidential proof of years of strength during the ups and the downs of this ride we call life.

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A six-year-old boy has been publicly praised by the media after more hair-raising details from the terror attack in Elad last week have come to light.
“He is a hero,” explained the boy’s uncle to Israeli news interviewers.
“He didn’t just stand there. He left his father and went to the security guards and told them, ‘My father is dead, there are terrorists.’ He is a hero, and his father is a hero.”
According to family members, after seeing his father Yonatan Chavakuk stabbed in the chest, 6-year-old Yosef ran to security guards to alert them of the terrorists and their brutal attack. 
Now that he has had a couple days to process the horrors of that night, the young boy is very shaken.

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Lior Chabakuk, widow of one of the victims killed in the Elad attack, choked back tears as she spoke to news reporters’ microphones last week.
“Yonatan decided he was going to fight. He wanted to take the ax from their hands,” she told Y-Net News. It has been widely reported that it is due to Yonatan’s heroic struggle with the terrorists that many were able to escape.

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It has been a week since the horrific Elad terror attack, and readers around the world have followed the many tales of heroicism and brutality. A group of the world’s biggest rabbanim, however, are asking a deeper question: Why did this happen?
A moving letter from Rav Gershon Edelstein, Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein, Rav Chaim Feinstein, Rav Dovid Twersky, and Rav Naftali Nussbaum has been released to the public.
“Who among us can say that their heart is pure?,” asks the letter, shifting the focus off of the attack itself and onto the Jewish People as a whole.

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Just a few days have passed since the brutal Elad terror attack, and the terrorists have now been captured.  Police identified the two suspects as 19 year-old As’sad al-Rifa’i and 20-year-old Subhi Abu Shqeir. Though the perpetrators are no longer on the loose, for some families, the terror attack is still very much in motion:
Another morning begins and another camera crew has arrived at the doorstep of the Gol family. The muffled sobs of children fill the air. Gol’s widow, a mother of 5, is now left to raise their children alone. Her husband Boaz had been the provider for the house, before he was murdered in the Elad attack.
“My husband was a good man,” she says, through tears. “I don’t know how we will survive without him.”

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Three days after the brutal Elad terror attack that shocked a nation, details continue to come to light. One young father-of-5 who was tragically killed, Yonatan Chavakuk, reportedly died defending his 6-year-old son. According to witnesses, Chavakuk fought the terrorists heroically, allowing others to escape.
Another father killed was Boaz Gol, who also leaves behind 5 devastated children. According to Boaz’s family, he had been on his way to a Torah class.

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Readers around the world were shocked and saddened this week by the story of the tragic Jerusalem fire which killed 4-year-old Adele Cohen. The Cohen family is sitting shiva now, and a Chesed Fund page has been opened to help them replace their belongings. The fund now includes an  emotional video from Adele’s father, Shimon:

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Readers around the world were shocked and saddened this week by the story of the tragic Jerusalem fire which killed 4-year-old Adele Cohen. The Cohen family is sitting shiva now, and a Chesed Fund page has been opened to help them replace their belongings. The fund now includes an  emotional video from Adele’s father, Shimon.
“The fire started suddenly. Adele was right next to it,” says Shimon, his clothing torn from mourning his young daughter. “She wasn’t able to run away in time.”