A distinctive scene unfolds at the Chabad House in Flanders, Belgium. Organized by Isser Lubecki, Rabbi Yeoshua Mottal delivered a class on the Beis Hamikdash for deaf students, with David Ohana providing interpretation in sign language • Watch 

Israel’s only deaf rabbi is giving a hand to the hard of hearing by translating the entire Torah into sign language. Speaking to the Jewish News from Rishon Lezion in Israel through a sign language interpreter, Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff admits that it’s a “big responsibility” to try to make Judaism “accessible and possible” for the 15,000 Israelis who are deaf or hard of hearing and who communicate in sign language. He jokes that he “wishes he had competition.” • Full Story

Chabad Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, director of the Jewish Deaf Foundation, took the Kirk Auditorium stage at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind on Feb. 29 for a special presentation, “The Holocaust Through Deaf Eyes” • Read More, Pictures