Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency, a federal investigator said Thursday.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains clearly the saying of our Sages: yesh chochmo ba’goyim taamin, yesh Torah ba’goyim al taamin – there is knowledge/science in the nations, believe; there is Torah in the nations, do not believe. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
For the Jews of Chernigov, Ukraine, Purim provided a chance to escape from the war, tension and economic troubles that are engulfing their country. For a night, they were virtually transported to Israel, where they enjoyed an elegant Purim party arranged by the local Shluchim Rabbi Yisroel and Aliza Silberstein.
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Simcha Felder on ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show. Felder offered a detailed view of the controversy surrounding the Education Investment Tax Credit, the East Ramapo School District oversight proposal and his crime-fighting efforts in the legislature and personally.
This afternoon, at around 12:30pm, a Jewish-owned home on President Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenues was robbed at gunpoint by three African-American men who knocked at the door.
Over 200 people came together for an evening of awareness and inclusion for individuals with special needs at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights this past Sunday. The event, organized by the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, featured speakers who implored the crowd to look at everyone in our community as equal, even if we perceive them as being “different.”
The day after 30-year-old Nadiv Kehaty died, his friends gathered at the Crown Heights synagogue he helped found to decide how to help his wife and four young children.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rachamim (Oscar) Piperno, OBM, a longtime member of the Chabad community in Los Angeles, CA. He was in his mid 50s.
Rabbi Shlomo Besser, an activist dedicated to preserving the Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe, succeeded his father as the rabbi of Congregation Bnei Israel Chaim on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his parents’ home in July of 2014.
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