The daughter of Yitzchok Rosenberg, one of the two men who tragically died yesterday on a Miami area beach, reportedly wrote the following open letter in which she relates that WhatsApp informed her of her father’s death – before it was even confirmed.
Two prominent members of the Satmar Chasidic community in New York passed away this morning in a tragic accident on a Miami area Beach, where they were pulled into the sea by a riptide.
Over 40 leading members of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) convened at an emergency conference in Jerusalem Sunday May 15, 2016 to deliberate the incessant terror wave in Israel and in order to protest the intention to renew negotiations with the Palestinians.
The Jewish community of Irkutsk, a city in the Russian far north of Siberia, has recently relived an exhilaration like no other: the ancient parochet, the decorative cover for the alcove containing Torah scrolls in the city synagogue, that mysteriously disappeared over a hundred years ago, was returned home through courageous efforts of its rabbi and with the help of no one other than the city mayor himself.
The New York City Health Department is investigating an outbreak of varicella (chickenpox) in the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. To date, there have been 75 reports of persons with varicella who became ill during or after March 2016. The median age of patients is 3 years (range 0 to 10 years); 72% were not vaccinated against varicella, and 14% had not yet received the recommended number of doses.
Five years after he founded Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an organization dedicated to rooting out child abuse in Orthodox-Jewish communities, Meyer Seewald is saying goodbye.
Jewish veterans throughout Russia celebrated Victory Day yesterday, May 9th, marking the USSR’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
A wildfire has engulfed the Canadian town of Fort McMurrey, Alberta, and caused the mass evacuation of over 90,000 people. Chabad in Calgary, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Matusof, has been hard at work arranging food and accommodation for those displaced by the inferno.
A secular Israeli bus driver assaulted an Orthodox-Jewish passenger and shouted “we must kill all the Dossim!” – a pejorative term used to refer to Haredim in Israel – after falsely accusing him of not having paid the bus fare. It was the third such attack in as many days.
Nearly 200 Jewish passengers were singled out and removed from an EasyJet flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Paris, France, last week. The travelers, who were mostly returning home from Passover vacation spent in Spain, were escorted off the flight by Spanish armed police officers.
After years of delays, Israel may open offices in its Brussels headquarters, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) advised Jerusalem on Tuesday, and may complete the process of credentials for its representatives, the Foreign Ministry stated.
The Jewish community of Hungary celebrated the restoration of the 200-year-old Great Synagogue in Budapest.
A two-and-a-half-year-old Orthodox-Jewish toddler died this morning in a freak elevator accident in Antwerp, Belgium.
Two brothers were separated by the Holocaust. After 77 years, their families just reunited.
An Israeli man was stabbed in the back on Monday night in an apparent terror attack near the Lions’ Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. A knife was found at the scene, the police announced, but the assailant has fled.
A South Florida man who was planning a Passover terror attack on a Miami area synagogue is in FBI custody after federal agents who posed as terrorists set up a sting operation to stop the planned bloodshed.
Following an anti-Semitic tirade containing medieval conspiracy theories about Jews delivered by a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, Rabbi Berel Lazar, chief rabbi and head of Chabad in Russia, called on the government to stamp out hate speech against Jews.
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