Camp Vermont closes out the season with a sign of accomplishment- over 100 siyumim!!!!! Home It’s been a Shabbos packed with drashos, brachos, meetings and visits to shuls across Deal. But when Rav Binyamin Finkel is about to make havdala, there is no sign of exhaustion- only serenity Hamavadil, with the Belzer Ruv, in the nusach of Sephardic selichot Children who just want to be home… Lights of our Nation: 2 Elul- Rav Eliezer Hager At the center of the universe, welcoming a new season Lights of our Nation: 2 Elul- Rav Shmuel Dovid Walkin At the installation of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod as chief rabbi of Chisinau, Moldava In Chevron, city of our fathers, the passion and power of Selichos Rav Yerucham Olshin shares a story with Rabbi Ephraim Eliyahu Shapiro, voice of inspiration to so many Mr. Michael Rosenberg once again wakes up Portland, Oregon, with the blast of the shofar. A Friday morning in Deal elevated, as Rabbi David Haber and the community join to welcome Rav Binyamin Finkel of the Mir The overlap of seasons, in Yerushalayim Preparing for Shabboat Shalom, an Erev Shabbos meeting of boats in beautiful Lac Des Sables, at which Rabbi Emanuel Carlebach distributes challos, candles and chizuk to Jewish boat owners from all over the Laurentians Songs of the Season: Ma Navu A new month, and in Yerushalayim, a new Sefer Torah Mordechai Shapiro and Zanvel Weinberger usher in Chodesh Elul, at a chasunah Photographer Shlomi Cohen capturing the dramatic first moments of a new zman at Ateres Shlomo, in Rishon L’Tzion Stuff Jews care about Neshama strains in Newark… Last Thursday night mishmar for the bein hazmanim season in Perth, Australia At Khal Yotzei Ashkenaz in Lakewood, holding fast to mesorah (mesowrah!) and blowing shofar on the first day of Rosh Chodesh The Daily Q On the sands of Deal, a first-ever Miami Boys Choir alumni gathering, representing all the different eras of the group, with one Elul’dike plea At the “Hanechemodim” maamad last night in Prestwich, Manchester, celebrating the opening of another new Kollel, Rav Leibush Rabinowitz shares the message of Rav Avrohom Gurwitz. At Camp HASC, Rav Judah Mischel and talmidim gathering to celebrate a new month and the perfect Sefer with which to welcome it, Rav Judah’s B’derech Lights of our Nation: 30 Av- Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg The boys of the Rom V’Nisa program in Camp Romimu celebrate a summer of accomplishment: 160 mesayeimim finishing Tamid, with at least 4x chazarah, totalling 27,383 amudim of chazarah!!! It’s Rosh Chodesh Elul and all roads are leading home After a chuppah, respected Queens askan Ari Hoch accompanies Rav Yerucham Olshin, as the Rosh Yeshiva shares his compliments with singer Zanvil Weinberger At the LGA airport gate, already hearing the hum of a new zman Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen enjoying the final days of bein hazmanim On the beds at Yeshiva Beis Matisyahu in Bnei Brak, a note – and a treat, a small way of saying welcome back! Yom Kippur kotton from all corners of the globe… in Mijas, Spain Luggage coming back home – handle with care! The Daily Q “Wow, you put in such effort!” Rav Yerucham Olshin tells singer Mordechai Shapiro after a chuppah Rav Binyamin Weinrib parting from the campers at Matziv Midwest, words for the road ahead The song of a new Day, in Madrid On the yahrzeit of Rav Shmuel Salant The Camp Agudah grand sing begins with a theme song for our shared team At an event for Mosdos Viznitz, held in the Gerrer beis medrash in Yerushalayim, the boys of Yiddish Nachas had the opportunity to add to the glory and majesty of the moment A pre-Elul wake up call at the center of the universe Lights of our Nation: 29 Av- Rav Menachem Mendel Alter Rav Henoch Teitelbaum of Sassov at a chasunah tonight, spending the moments of the chuppah in a protective tent of Torah Just thought this was beautiful. As a summer of league games, trips and activities winds down… NCSY Kollel winding down … with such heart and longing The boys of NCSY Kollel preparing to take leave of Rav Hershel Schachter Maariv in Las Vegas, a wellspring of life in the desert