If you follow restaurants in New York at all, you’ve seen or heard Maimon Kirschenbaum’s name. It’s synonymous with — some would say infamous for — a steady stream of wage-violation lawsuits brought against star chefs such as Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, and Keith McNally (he’s won settlements from all three), and he’s targeted restaurants like Nobu, Philippe, and Le Bernardin. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a modern-day Robin Hood, fighting for workers’ rights in a business full of corruption, or an ambulance-chasing bully determined to put the city’s restaurants out of business.
Ari Halberstam (L), who was murdered in New York by a terrorist in 1991 and Lee Rigby who was murdered in London this week by terrorists.
Nearly 20 years after a Hasidic Jewish boy riding across the Brooklyn Bridge was killed by a Muslim fighting jihad, a British soldier was hacked to death and reportedly beheaded on the streets of London by Muslims fighting jihad.
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If someone were to tell you that tens of thousands of grown adults had taken to the streets, weeping bitterly over their sad state of “Beef deprivation,” you would likely treat it like a joke. You might check your (spiffy electronic) calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st.
The girls of Gani Lubavitch Girls High School in S. Paulo, Brazil, were treated to a special experience two weeks before Gimmel Tammuz, when Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, the director of JEM, spoke to them and shared special videos of the Rebbe.
Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky stands beside the director of the Regency Jewish Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
MONROE, NJ — Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky was called upon to be an official ‘witness’ for the Guinness Book of World Records, documenting an historical occasion of the most centenarians in one event (40!) at a Jewish nursing facility in NJ.
The accident happened in the early morning of Tisha B’Av, 1982. As I opened my closet door to get ready to go to synagogue, I noticed an old stepladder and a carpet sweeper stashed there temporarily. We were in the midst of construction, and the plumber was running new pipes through my closet up to the attic.
A fast moving fire broke out in an apartment on Montgomery Street. The fire was quickly extinguished thanks to the fast response of the fire department and there were no reported injuries.
Oklahoma legislator Paul Wesselhoft introduces New York State Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder and Rabbi Ovadia Goldman to the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Showing its gratitude for the immediate and ongoing support and assistance offered by Jewish groups and individuals from around the country, the Oklahoma House of Representatives gave a standing ovation Thursday to Rabbi Ovadia Goldman, co-director of The Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma, and New York State Assemblyman Phillip Goldfeder.
A violent collision between an SUV and dump truck left a father and his three children miraculously with only scrapes and bruises, despite rolling over and slamming into a house.
Young professionals from across the U.S. and Canada gathered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn recently to celebrate Shabbat, meet each other, and experience the warm hospitality of local families and shuls.
