Uriel Vigler

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Jul 5, 2024, 6:12 PM

Every day I wake up, replete with energy, ready to bound into the day and inspire my fellow Jews and make a positive impact on the world. And indeed, my wife and I have been able to open and run...

May 3, 2024, 8:04 AM

5 Lessons We Can Learn From the Protesters

The past couple of weeks have been rough for us Jews. Seeing the vile and hateful rhetoric coming out of the protests at college campuses across the country is like watching a horror film. All those stories of ancient...

Apr 27, 2024, 7:31 AM

How Should We React to the Horrifying Calls for Our Extermination?

The calls for the mass extermination of Jews that we’ve seen across college campuses this week are nothing short of horrifying. The similarities to 1930s Germany are bone-chilling. To think that these Ivy League universities are supposed to educate and...

Apr 18, 2024, 11:54 PM

The Haggadah of 2024

Imagine you were a Jew living 4000 years ago. You witnessed the 10 plagues, the Splitting of the Sea, the destruction of Pharaoh and G-d’s protection. A year has passed and you’re sitting at the Seder with your children....

Apr 12, 2024, 12:02 AM

The Ma Nishtana of 2024

In a few days, Jews worldwide will sit around the Seder table celebrating the Festival of Our Freedom. In short: the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians, led by the tyrannic Pharoah, for over 200 years. Finally, by way of...

Dec 29, 2023, 3:15 PM

Dropped His Startup to Fight!

When I turned on my phone after Shabbat two weeks ago, I found a message from someone I didn’t know. “Hi Rabbi Vigler,” he wrote. “My name is Doron Levy. I served in the IAF (combat special forces) from October...

Dec 1, 2023, 6:01 PM

Their Joy Is Our Joy

My heart overflowed this pure joy this week, as I watched video after video of the hostages returning home. I cried when I saw little Abigail Edan coming home. Hamas murdered both her parents and took her hostage alone—a 3-year-old!...

Nov 3, 2023, 5:56 AM

Listen closely: You will never break us! When my grandfather was deported to Auschwitz, and his wife and children were murdered by the Germans in the gas chambers, he was traumatized and deeply and permanently scarred, but not broken. When my...

Oct 28, 2023, 1:11 AM

Bring Them Home Now!

Our hearts are broken, shattered. 224 of our brothers and sisters are in captivity. 1400 murdered and thousands more wounded. How could this happen?! We have no answers, only outrage. This unfathomable, barbaric massacre has shaken every Jew to the...

May 12, 2023, 6:26 AM

7 lessons from Operation Shield and Arrow

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Sderot on May 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Those of us who aren't dashing to bomb shelters can act in solidarity with those who are by taking on these 'best practices'

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About Me

Zimbabwean-born Rabbi Uriel Vigler has been directing the Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side of Manhattan together with his wife Shevy since 2005. In addition, he founded Belev Echad which helps wounded IDF soldiers. He has a weekly blog on current events. He is the proud father of eight children (including triplets) and leads a very young, vibrant and dynamic community.