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  | Tribute | Be Normal  By  Yonoson Rosenblum   | September 25, 2025 Email Print In tribute to my friend Rav Dovid Kamenetsky  ztz”l PHOTO: ELI COBIN I’M old enough to have lost most of those who had the largest formative influence on my life, including both parents. But not so old that the loss of a close friend younger than me does not hit particularly hard. Rabbi Dovid Kamenetsky was such a friend. We already knew each other when ArtScroll asked me to write a biography of his grandfather, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky, over thirty years ago. But that project brought us much closer together. I had been given a large pile of interviews conducted by Rav Nosson Kamenetsky  ztz”l , which contained a fair amount of Yiddish. I asked Reb Dovid, who lived just down the street, to help with the Yiddish. But that translation was the least of his contributions to the biography. He read each chapter and put his imprimatur on the book. He would tell me, “I can’t say that eve...

  ב"ה The Yom Kippur fast  begins before sunset on October 1 and ends the following night. Yom Kippur is a day packed with meaning. Like a beautiful gem, it has many facets, each one brilliant, true, and wonderful. Tzvi Freeman  famously pointed out  that the English name for this day, Day of Atonement, can be broken into Day of At-One-Ment. As Jews, we sometimes feel like we are alone among the nations, “a single sheep among 70 wolves.” And that’s true. But we are not really alone. Because G-d is with us. In His presence, we are at one, at one with each other, at one with our souls, and at one with Him. So let’s grab ahold of this sacred day, the opportunity to access our innermost oneness, and make the most of it. If you do not yet have a place to pray this Yom Kippur, please  let us know  and we’ll do our best to set you up! Wishing you a meaningful and easy fast, Your friends and family @ Chabad.org 13 things to do before Yom Kippur 1 Brush Up on Yom Ki...

  MLB Teams Scores & Schedule Standings Podcasts The Windup Newsletter Fantasy • • • Log In Start a free trial How the Mets lost their groove: Inside baseball’s biggest collapse Tim Britton  and  Will Sammon Sept. 29, 2025 Updated 2:51 pm GMT+3 MIAMI — On the field hours before a game during the final weekend of the regular season, a member of the New York Mets eyed the visitors’ dugout, struggling to make sense of what he was thinking. “There was magic last year; you walked in the building on a day like today and you were expecting to win the game,” the person said. “This year? I don’t know.” With a $340 million payroll, with Juan Soto signed to the richest contract in sports history, with a team coming off a rejuvenating trip to the National League Championship Series, the Mets failed to even reach MLB’s expanded postseason field. Two months into the season, they were baseball’s best team. Three and a half months later, they became the sport’s biggest failures....