Victor Vancier (born December 25, 1956), commonly referred to by his Hebrew name, Chaim Ben Pesach (Hebrew: חיים בן פסח) or as Chaim Ben Yosef is an American political activist and the founder and director of the United States-based Kahanist organization, Jewish Task Force (JTF)[1] and the former National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United States.[2] In 1987, he was convicted on charges related to a series of terrorist bombings conducted during his time with the JDL to protest Soviet treatment of Jews.[2] He served five and a half years in federal prison for his involvement in 18 bombings in New York and Washington.
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^ abBuder, Leonard (October 27, 1987). "Prison for Ex-J.D.L. Chief in Bombing". The New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
and a follower of Meir Kahane. He was also friends with activist ChaimBenPesach. Hikind broke with Kahane after Kahane moved to Israel and became more...
Passover, also called Pesach (/ˈpɛsɑːx, ˈpeɪ-/; Biblical Hebrew: חַג הַפֶּסַח, romanized: Ḥag hapPesaḥ, lit. 'Pilgrimage of the Passing Over'), is a major...
1526. His uncle Jakob ben Chajim was Reichsrabbiner ("Rabbi of the Empire") of the Holy Roman Empire, and his older brother Chaim of Friedberg was a famous...
Spalato Joseph Ergas (c1685–1730), Italian kabbalist ChaimBen Attar (the elder) d. 1720 Chaim ibn Attar (1696–1743), author of Or ha-Ḥayyim commentary...
Kaf haChaim 89:52–53 Jacob ben Asher, Yoreh De'ah 88:1 Shabbatai ben Meir, Lips of the priest Tzvi Hirsch Spira, Darhei Teshuva 7, quoting Chaim Benveniste's...
are numerous early and late Jewish scholars, including Rashi, the Ramban, Chaim Vital, Isaac Abarbanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, Rabbi Yaakov...
Torat Chaim Yeshiva on ha-Gai Street, facing the Temple Mount. At its peak, about 300 students from all over the world, including Rabbis Tzvi Pesach Frank...
Kustanovich in 1920 and had four children (PesachChaim, Fay Gittel, Shifra, and David) before leaving Europe. PesachChaim died in Europe, and another son, Reuven...
meaning. He is answered fully: You should reply to him with [all] the laws of pesach: one may not eat any dessert after the paschal sacrifice. The wicked son...
and slight changes in the liturgy. Erev Pesach and Fast of the Firstborn, ("Ta'anit Bechorot"): 14 Nisan Pesach (Passover): 15–21 Nisan (outside Israel...
brings Shabbat to a close, when we open the door for Elijah late in the Pesach Seder, and when we express the hope in the first paragraph of the Kaddish...
the massacre in Castile in 1391. A student of the rabbi of Lisbon, Joseph Chaim, he became well versed in rabbinic literature and in the learning of his...
is said to have been a student of Jacob ben Asher (son of Asher ben Yechiel). This view originates in Chaim Yosef David Azulai's Shem Gedolim. Abudarham...
wear tefillin at Shacharit as usual. On Chol HaMoed (intermediate days) of Pesach and Sukkot, there is a great debate among the early halachic authorities...
awaken the pintele Yid". Mishpacha Special Supplement: "A Father to Follow". Pesach 5771 (Spring 2011), pp. 18-25. "You've Never Heard Such a Kaddish". collive...
refers to the day after each of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals in Judaism: Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot. The phrase originates from the verse in Psalms 118:27...
Music Hall of Fame. IN MEMORY OF BEN ZION SHENKER Benzion Shenker Pesach 5775 Kumzitz Ben Zion Shenker Singing at Hachnasas Sefer Torah Kalish, Jon (2013-10-16)...
subjects. Rabbi Yehoshua Yecheskel also printed his works on the "Hagada shel Pesach" under the name "Ishei Yisrael". Unfortunately, Rabbi Yehoshua Yecheskel...
in favor of then incumbent Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. He chaired the committee to commemorate his childhood friend Dr. Pesach Hebroni and edited his book "Mathematical...
Orach Chaim and Even HaEzer were written by R. Yehudah ben Shimon Ashkenazi; the sections on Choshen Mishpat and Yoreh De'ah by Zechariah Mendel ben Aryeh...
Lubchansky, spiritual dean of Baranovich Yeshiva Aaron of Pinsk, rabbi in Pinsk Pesach Pruskin, rabbi and yeshiva dean in Kobrin David Rappoport, yeshiva dean...
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