A group of Oholei Menachem 8th grade students directed by their classmate Mendel Winner, a thirteen year old Shliach in Brighton Beach, graciously gave 3 hours a week of their precious after school hours to teach adults basic Hebrew reading.
Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) reinforced the appeal by Sholom Rubashkin’s appellate team.
Hundreds braved the frigid weather to participate in the Levaya of Reb Moshe Morosow OBM, one of Lubavitches Elder Chassidim, in front of 770 this morning.
If Sarah Palin’s seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the fire by hitting a jarringly off-note:
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible.
A Talmud story and President Obama’s inspiring talk to honor the victims and heroes of the Arizona shooting, reminds us all how to treat and respect children and adults.
Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, director of Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles, delivered the invocation at the ceremony where John R. Noguez took the oath of office as county assessor in the city of Los Angeles, CA.
The number of U.S. homes receiving a foreclosure filing will climb about 20 percent in 2011, reaching a peak for the housing crisis, as unemployment remains high and banks resume seizures after a slowdown, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaTomim, Rabbi Yosef Moshe ben Harav Elchonon Dov Morosow OBM of Crown Heights at age 91.
Finally, young shluchim will not be a minority amongst their peers.
At Chayolei Tzivos Hashem’s upcoming global Yud Shvat rally, MyShliach will be the largest “base” of all the schools set to be in attendance. The MyShliach base is made up of yaldei hashluchim all over the world, who are used to being isolated in their observance of Yiddishe and Chassidishe yomim tovim. But when part of the larger MyShliach group, they are no longer alone.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was arrested after crashing into a number of parked cars, and attempting to flee the scene only to be stopped by the police command center down the block. By crashing into it as well.
MONTREAL, Canada [CHI] — A small reception was held this past Sunday for the friends and supporters Heichal Menachem Montreal.
n this weeks Halacha and the Parasha – Parashas Beshalach – We discuss the matter of showing respect to Malchus.
An 8-year-old boy in Oklahoma has been rescued after getting his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it as part of a dare.
EDWARDS, CO — Maia Fishman and Brielle Quigley, both 7 years old, placed their tiny delicate hands on the same kind of feather quill Moses used and helped inscribe a few letters in a new Torah — letters and life lessons that will outlive their children’s children’s children.
CHINA — When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles—and the young entrepreneur is working creatively to please her delighted customers. But in less than two weeks, she’ll close shop. That’s when she hopes she’ll have reached her goal: to raise $5000.
As thousands of Brisbane residents pack up and evacuate in the face of waters from Australia’s worst flood in three decades barreling down on the Queensland state capital, Jewish leaders in the coastal city are cautiously optimistic that their historic synagogue might be spared.
Just after the “Blizzard of 2010” United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean P’kwy held its 6th annual winter Ski camp! On the cold morning spirits were high as talmidim awaited the 7:15am ULYOP/ Hamasifta bus. The heated bus climbed it’s way over and through unplowed streets making it’s way to our home away from home the841 Ocean P’kwy. After an inspirational/ uplifting davening, day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the van was loaded.
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