Sholom Ciment

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Aug 1, 2019, 5:15 AM

Somalia, Sweden & the USA

Gävle Museum in Sweden hosts art exhibition space for pedagogical purposes. School children make a pilgrimage there, an unofficial part of their curriculum. Sweden is a wealthy country that prides itself on its generosity. During World War II, Sweden took...

Jun 27, 2019, 9:58 PM

The Rebbe, 25 Years Later

Despite G-d’s miraculous redemption from Egypt and unprecedented revelation at Sinai, the generation who witnessed it all became cause to the most tragic paradigm shift in our nation’s destiny. G-d’s “Promised Land” was before them. But they thought it prudent...

May 23, 2019, 7:28 AM

Largest Pilgrimage of Jews since Exodus From Egypt

A tiny city in Northern Israel, year-round population 928, is hosting for the next 24 hours the largest pilgrimage of Jews since our people's Exodus from Egypt. The city is Meron. It is home to the resting place of The...

May 2, 2019, 9:33 AM

A Yizkor to be Remembered

Clearly a luminary of a spiritual leader on the local level, Chabad of Poway's Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was forced into the global spotlight this week and has quickly become an icon of international inspiration. He described coming face to face...

May 16, 2018, 6:06 AM

A wedding anniversary gift

Jared Kushner went off-script while addressing the dedication ceremony of The US Embassy in Jerusalem. He referred to Jerusalem as the "eternal heart," not capital, of the Jewish people. This must have been the Psalmist's description speaking from his heart. "The city which has...

Dec 9, 2017, 12:15 AM

History Repeats Itself

My family and I just returned from Israel. The ongoing miracle of the Jewish people's flourishing existence in our homeland was made so much more extra-ordinary, though, upon our return. While there, Israeli media marked 70 years since the world recognized...

Jul 11, 2017, 9:24 AM

Thank you, Prime Minister Modi

On Friday, UNESCO passed a resolution designating the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Hebron a Palestinian heritage site. This, on the heels of their stripping Jerusalem and the Temple Mount of its connection to The Jewish people. This world body...

Jul 4, 2017, 12:17 AM

Appreciating Genuine Leadership

The Rebbe’s 23rd yahrzeit, marked on the 3rd of Tamuz, Tuesday, June 27 provides an annual opportunity to reflect, appreciate and be inspired. For some, the Rebbe graced their lives. Others were impacted. Still others found their lives profoundly changed. For his...

May 4, 2017, 6:31 AM

Israel Today, Celebrating Purely Life

This past week Jewry solemnly remembered the six million Kedoshim and Israel’s fallen soldiers.These monumental dates were followed by celebrations marking Israel’s 69 years of independence. One day after “Yom HaShoah,” Germany - the country responsible for forever blackening our...

Jan 10, 2017, 5:21 PM

Thank You, Prime Minister Netanyahu!

For fourty years we dreamt that it was untouchable. But this Chanukah Eve it was not only touched, it was viciously assaulted. Our generation of Jews quickly learned, we must not take anything for granted. Natalie Sopinsky, a native of...

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About Me

Ciment is Founding Rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beis Menachem, a pioneering traditional Jewish presence in Central Palm Beach County, Florida established in 1994. Chabad's 5 acre, "Rae & Joseph Gann Campus for Living Judaism" serves hundreds of member families and services thousands of Jews from all walks of life.