Yesterday, the Jewish community of Borough Park celebrated the wedding of the son of Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, HYD – one of the six Kedoshim who were murdered by terrorists at the Chabad Center in Mumbai, India in November, 2008.
Fox 5 News did a video profile of the all-female Orthodox Jewish EMT volunteers corps Ezras Nashim, which formally launched yesterday (Tuesday) in Borough Park.
The newly inked Palestinian unity deal between former rivals Fatah and terror group Hamas will create an opportunity for Hamas to seize more power, Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune said in a recent interview on Real News TV.
Israeli security forces were joined by elite IDF units in an ongoing search for three yeshiva high school students, who Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu confirmed Saturday night “were kidnapped by a terrorist organization.”
Israel’s parliament on Tuesday elected its former speaker Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin to be the country’s 10th President, a mainly ceremonial post that he’ll take when current President Shimon Peres‘ term ends in July.
Twenty-five years ago, Michael Gala Jr., then an FDNY Firefighter, found a pair of Tefillin on the streets of New York City. Understanding that they are a Jewish religious item, he turned to his orthodox neighbors and asked that they return them to their rightful owner. They were successful – 25 years later.
Alexander Imich, a Jewish holocaust survivor and the oldest man in the world, passed away yesterday at the age of 111.
On Friday, Spain’s royal cabinet approved a bill allowing Sephardic Jews, who descend from Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula over 500 years ago, the right to Spanish citizenship.
This morning, shortly after 8:30am, a Borough Park Chesed volunteer picked up two women headed for cancer treatment in Manhattan hospitals. He was quickly pulled over by a TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) police officer.
Major Gen. Rabbi Mordechai Piron, chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Force during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as well as a strong advocate for war widows and orphans, passed away on May 27. He was 93 years old.
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion, reports the JTA. Approximately 30 Jews live in San Juan La Laguna, in the state of Solola, in a population of under 10,000.
Two Jewish brothers wearing yarmulkas were attacked near a synagogue in the Paris area on Motzei Shabbos. The assault came hours after a deadly shooting spree that left four dead at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
Three people were killed and a fourth was in critical condition in Brussels following an attack inside the Jewish Museum of Belgium late Saturday afternoon, and security has been tightened at Jewish institutions around the country.
Many people exercise in Prospect Park, especially now that the warm weather has arrived. Tens of thousands of Brooklynites, including many members of our community, use the park every day to go bike-riding, walking or jogging. But according to a report on Yeshiva World News, recreationists should beware of their surroundings at all times, as the park’s crime-ridden past is not completely behind us.
“I don’t believe it!” This was the initial reaction of the ambassadors and representatives of 23 European countries when the results of a comprehensive survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League were published this week. The survey produced worrying results regarding levels of anti-Semitism and the violation of religious freedoms in every country.
The 11 year-old son of Menachem Stark, a Chasidic landlord who was murdered a few months ago, was robbed at knife-point in Williamsburg Monday evening by three teenaged hoodlums who threatened to kill him before making off with his bicycle.
An Orthodox-Jewish woman is suing Staten Island University Hospital and two of its physicians, claiming she was forced to undergo a cesarean section against her will.
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