A Houston Orthodox Jewish family has launched a petition to the Obama administration in an effort to get the Food and Drug Administration to allow their six year old son access to a treatment that they hope will cure his aggressive brain cancer.
The Great Synagogue of Grodno, Belarus, built in 1578, was partially destroyed by flames caused by an electrical circuit. The praying hall and kitchen were completely ruined, leaving the community homeless and without a place for services.
In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, with tens of thousands listening and watching via a multi-channeled simulcast, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society (RCCS) awarded their Split-the-Pot jackpot of over $300,000 to the Weiss Family of Monsey, NY.
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said on Tuesday it will take another look at the mysterious death of 55-year old Howard Frank, a 770 beggar who owned a million-dollar photo collection.
Jason Feifer, writing for Fast Company Magazine, embarks on the trail of a mysterious online company run by Chasidic Jews that has cracked the secret to making products people want.
A Brooklyn man who wounded four members of a Jewish patrol group was cleared of nearly all charges Wednesday by jurors who placed much of the blame for the 2010 mayhem on the Shomrim volunteers.
Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society is hosting their annual auction drawing and entertainment evening, beginning at 7:00pm and running through 1:00am. The evening will feature a long list of Jewish superstars, who have dedicated this evening on behalf of the several hundred cancer-stricken families helped each year by RCCS.
Satmar Chassidim gathered at the Bedford Avenue armory in Crown Heights Heights to mark Kuf Alef Kislev, the day Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum Zt’l, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
On the heels of his mega-hit “Yesh Tikva,” Benny Friedman was hard at work on a follow-up album of original songs, but a phone conversation with a friend and fan set a different project in motion.
Fire has damaged part of Agri-Star, a kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa. The plant was formerly known as Agriprocessors; its CEO, Sholom M. Rubashkin, was sentenced to 27 years in Federal prison following a 2009 raid.
The war against Bris Milah in Europe continues. Norway will advance a law to “regulate ritual circumcision,” the Scandinavian country’s Health Minister Bent Hoie said following a call by Norway Children’s Ombudswoman Anne Lindboe to ban non-medical circumcision of minors, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports.
“I never fold my kids clean laundry. Just dump them all in their drawers.” “My five year old was very excited to show me the drawing she had made in school. It was of me lying in bed, looking miserable, with a basin at my side. I’m three months pregnant. Not sure what her teacher thinks.” “I think I just sent my daughter to school in her brother’s shirt.”
A fire at a factory billed as the world’s biggest maker of knishes has created nationwide shock and oy for those who can’t seem to find the Jewish treats anywhere.
Four-and-a-half years ago, Gital Dodelson, now 25, of Lakewood, NJ, married Avrohom Meir Weiss, part of a respected rabbinic family on Staten Island. Ten months after the wedding, Dodelson left the marital home with their newborn son, claiming her husband was controlling and manipulative.
It last happened in 1888 and, according to one calculation, won’t happen again for another 77,798 years: the convergence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
This photo was posted yesterday on Reddit, a user-generated social media website. It depicts an African-American man sleeping on the shoulder of an Orthodox Jewish man on the New York City subway. The photographer accompanied the photo with the following caption:
Paula Abdul was in Israel this week for her first visit to the Jewish state, where she planned to celebrate her bat mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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