Dovid Efune, director of the Algemeiner Journal, took to the airwaves today, first at CNBC and later at Huffington Post Live, to defend Israel’s right to destroy Iran’s dangerous nuclear aspirations, and counter the lies its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told yesterday at the pulpit of the United Nations General Assembly.
It was another year’s chagim spent abroad, away from Israel where Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kipur (and Simcha Torah and Shemini Atzeret and Succot…) are a matter of course; where in a spiritual analog of the Soviet agents who once visited America and pointing in any direction were astonished to be taken to a supermarket stuffed with food, so in Israel in any direction that can be pointed to a synagogue lies; where the Days of Awe do not require instructions on the packaging: It was another year for me away from those kinds of comfort.
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Sunday afternoon marked a joyous celebration when members of New Canaan, Connecticut’s Jewish community marked the dedication of the town’s first Torah.
About a dozen men prayed recently at Darkei Shalom, a Hasidic Jewish synagogue in the working-class neighborhood of Otradnoye in north Moscow.
Oholei Torah Alumni will be gathering once again on the onset of the Annual Kinnus Hashluchim. The reunion will be held on Wednesday, November 7th / 22nd Cheshvan at 8:00 pm in the Gutnick Ballroom of the Oholei Torah Center.
A Chabad rabbi’s picture briefly appears in this Aish.com video released for Yom Kippur, titled “Everyone Falls.” Can you spot the photo and/or identify who it is?
I am not writing this op-ed because I believe I possess any particular erudition, or that I am going to completely change everyone’s attitude on the matter. Actually, I can bet on the fact that I will have north of 50 comments slamming me and my creed. This op-ed is me attempting to expand your prospective a bit by giving you some insight into the mind of the antagonist, and of course I needed an outlet to vent my frustration.
On September 27, 2012, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on Iran and Radical Islam. He laid out a clear danger of radicalized Islam and the regime of Iran to the world, raising Bernard Lewis‘ comment that mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent for Iran, but an inducement.
For Brooklyn shoppers seeking fall’s most coveted heirloom fruit, provenance and pedigree are paramount. Pesticides, not so much.
Bright and early this morning, The Shluchim Office received a shipment of its famous plush Torahs, as well as Lulav & Esrog sets. This shipment is being turned around immediately, for delivery to Chabad Houses and Shluchim Worldwide.
Egyptian-American anti-Israel activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested on Tuesday evening on charges of criminal mischief misdemeanor for defacing a pro-Israel advertisement at a Times Square subway station, according to the New York Post.
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The Creative Soul – a new group dedicated to promoting art and creativity in the Orthodox/Chassidic community – is proud to announce a group art show taking place in Crown Heights during Sukkos.
In advance of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, the Transportation and Security Administration reminded its airport screeners and the travelling public that Jewish travelers may carry the Four Species – a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow branches, and a citron fruit known in Hebrew as an etrog – through security checkpoints and onboard planes.
Led by Rabbi Boruch Dov Lesches, the Lubavitch community of Monsey joined the broader Frum community to perform Kapparos.
Mendy Lebowitz, Shmuly Posner and Yaakov Tisashvili, three Students of Yeshiva Bais Dovid Shlomo in Connecticut, went out to Yale University to spread the light of Judaism in honor of the the High Holidays. Many students put on Tefilin with them, among them the young man pictured above, and many more received a guide for the upcoming Holidays.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Shimon Cohen, of Crown Heights, at the age of 76. The levaya will pass by 770 at 8:00am Thursday morning.
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