Behind the walls of an unassuming single-story building on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles, you will find dozens of smiling faces and hear the sounds of young children engrossed in learning. Listen a little closer and you will uncover a world filled with Hebrew alphabet, davening and Torah study. It is the new Nagel Jewish Academy, a unique Jewish educational program based on the philosophy “Jewish education for every Jewish child.”
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yaakov Dov Hakohen Katz OBM, eldest of the Roshei Yeshivos, and longtime Rosh Yeshiva of the Central Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Kfar Chabad. He was 85 years old.
Marking its 4th successful year, a Kumzitz style concert featuring Yosef Karduner and Yishai Lapidot brought out hundreds this past Motzai Shabbos.
In an op-ed published originally by the Jewish Daily Forward, Crown Heights attorney and community activist Eli Federman lays out why he believes Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner overstepped his bounds in his Halacha-quoting decision striking down Chabad Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein’s lawsuit against Northwestern University.
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