Despite protests from Jewish groups and an appeal to Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Holland is set to ban shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals following the Socialist party’s decision to support a proposal from the pro-animal party, the world’s first such party to be elected to parliament in 2006.
S. MONICA, CA — Local and federal law enforcement officers were searching for a man on Saturday thought to be responsible for an explosion outside a synagogue [Chabad of Simcha Monica].
It was December 1957, and Naftali Dulitzky, a wealthy Tel Aviv businessman, was asked by the Rebbe to donate a very large sum for the fledgling neighborhood in Kfar Chabad. Dulitzky obeyed, and in the end learned that both spiritual and material rewards were far greater. The Avner Institute presents this amazing encounter, where the Chassid who fretted over giving away a bit too much ultimately learned to trust the Rebbe’s promise of repayment.
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no relevant experience whom he knew socially.
After a decade of reaching out to local Jewish students, a Massachusetts Chabad-Lubavitch center’s program has been granted official status by Babson College.
What if Moses had lived in the digital age and could use social media like Facebook and Twitter? The international Jewish website Aish.com decided to answer that question, and made a funny video about it.
Once again it is Friday — time to watch The Living Torah. As the screen flickers on we await the Rebbe’s holy countenance and his immortal words. We watch and are transported back to those incredible years when farbrengens abounded and occasions to see the Rebbe were many. Perhaps at times we took those magical days for granted and didn’t take advantage of every golden opportunity.
Two Drunk off-duty New York City police officers have crashed their vehicles on each of the past two nights.
Israel’s Yad Vashem museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann to YouTube to mark the 50 years since the groundbreaking court case.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
CrownHeights.info the Avner Institute presents a photo of the Rebbe at a farewell gathering in Paris 1947 right before returning to the U.S. with his mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson OBM.
Comedian Mark Malkoff beats New York City bus in a race across Midtown… on a child’s tricycle
With more than 3,300 Chabad-Lubavitch centers spread out among 70 countries around the world, it can be downright easy finding a public quorum to pray with while travelling. And if you’re going to a popular resort town in the middle of the tourist season – a place like Vail, Colo., for instance – you don’t need to look very far.
Critics are giving 2 enthusiastic thumbs up to “Make Some Noise,” the musical production presented by the students of Bnos Chomesh Academy.
Life is so full of sadness and sorrow, some say it’s better not to have been born at all!… But how many people do you meet in a lifetime who are that lucky?
———————————————————-When things go wrong as they sometimes will
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hillWhen funds are low and debts are high
As you try to smile but somehow sigh.
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate Thursday, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved.
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