In recent years, a troubling and deeply concerning trend has emerged: too many Jews are choosing cremation without fully understanding its implications for the Torah, Jewish tradition, and eternal Jewish values. What may seem like a modern or convenient choice is, in fact, a decision with profound spiritual consequences.
On Sunday, August 2, Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman led the dedication and mezuzah ceremony for the Kholodenko, Murad, and Ressin JRCC Youth Centre, Library, and Mikva in Thornhill, Ontario — a house adjacent to the main synagogue of the Jewish Russian Community Centre of East Thornhill. The event, which drew hundreds for dinner, music, and celebration, marked the formal completion of a project years in the making.
Avrohom Yitzchok Abrahams (Crown Heights) to Sara Stock (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
My father was frightened that I might grow up being more husky than he had envisioned. In an attempt to scare me into losing weight, he told me that I would eventually have to buy two seats on an airplane. I don’t think he intended to hurt me. He was worried about me. He wanted what he thought was best for his child. But good intentions don’t always prevent us from hurting someone.
The Powerball jackpot edged closer to $1 billion, the largest prize of the year, after no one won Monday night’s lottery drawing.
Yossi and Chaya Lebovic from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
In honor of 50 years since the Rebbe introduced the special initiative to learn Hilchos Beis Habechirah during the Three Weeks, a special Beis Habechirah program was launched this summer for boys ages eight and up.
Noach Evers (Amsterdam, Netherlands) to Miri Liberow (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has launched a seven-week Alternate Side Parking (ASP) pilot program in portions of North/West Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, a predominantly white neighborhood, reducing street cleaning regulations from twice a week to only once a week on participating streets. The choice of location is very questionable.
Chabad at the Shore in Ventnor was evacuated Monday after the Chabad building received a threatening message, prompting an immediate response from local law enforcement.
Yosef Yitzchok and Rivka (nee Namirovski) Shaingarten from Panama City, Panama had a baby girl!
Mendel Meijers will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights following the passing of his mother Mrs. Miriam Meijers OBM. Times and location in the extended article.
This year’s YEKA Jewish summer program for boys brought together more than 160 children from over 20 cities and villages across Ukraine for 21 days of learning, friendship and adventure in the Carpathian Mountains.
It’s 6:15 pm on a Tuesday. Dinner’s on the stove, your phone is buzzing with a message from your sister, and your six-year-old is curled into the couch cushions, eyes locked on a tablet, completely somewhere else. You call her name once. Twice. Nothing. On the third try, you finally reach over and turn it off, and the sound that comes out of her could wake the whole block. If you know this moment, you are not failing. You are parenting in 2026.
Levi and Mushka (nee Tenenbaum) Krinsky from Libertyville, IL had a baby girl.
Mendel and Miriam (nee Katz) Greenberg from Schaumburg, IL had a baby boy!
People are shaped by the attitudes, language, and examples around them. A single public voice can attract others; a group can make an idea seem normal; and eventually, what was once seen as destructive can be presented as admirable.
