Close your eyes and imagine that you are standing at the Kosel Hamaaravi. What are you davening for? 

“If I could daven at the Kosel right now,” Mrs. Penina Rosenberg began, “I would daven that, in this crazy world, my children should grow up pure, ehrlich, and happy to be a Yid. And that when there are challenges, and even emergencies, I should know how to deal with them.”

This is how Mrs. Penina Rosenberg, Hineni L’Doros facilitator in Lakewood, began her talk to tens of women of the Baltimore community on Sunday evening, March 10, in a special event entitled, “Evening of Hineni: Understanding the Technology Challenge.”

Hineni L’Doros, a project of TAG International, arranges a six-week series of workshops for mothers, providing them with guidance needed to help their families navigate the challenges of technology. It is a division of Hineni, a three-year curriculum, created by TAG, to give the future mothers of Klal Yisrael the hashkafos and tools to live their lives and fight the challenges of technology.

Each year, on the 21st of Kislev, Harav Zvi Dov Slanger, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore, celebrates a seudas hoda’ah (thanksgiving meal) with his yeshiva to commemorate the day in 1944 when he arrived in Switzerland, following his incarceration in Bergen-Belsen. This year, Harav Slanger will celebrate 70 years since that awesome day. In preparation for this remarkable event, Harav Slanger agreed to share his moving story, a story that demonstrates hashgacha pratis (Divine providence), obvious miracles, and, most of all, the fulfillment of the pasuk, “I will not have been revolted by them, nor will I have rejected them to obliterate them, to annul my Covenant with them.” (Artscroll Stone Chumash, Vayikra 26:44)

Walk through the streets of downtown Baltimore, and you will find endless streets of narrow row houses. Walk down the 500 block of North Washington Street, and you may notice a beautifully renovated building. Behind the doors of 529 North Washington Street, lies a beacon of hope and an oasis in time and space- a structure dedicated to serving Jewish families of seriously ill patients at the nearby world-famous Johns Hopkins Hospital. Welcome to the Tikva House.

Binyamin Kaufman*, a resident of a New Jersey Jewish community, had just received a frightening diagnosis, and needed surgery – soon. The appropriate research