The Jewish organizations that did not succeed in preventing the legislation banning on kosher slaughtering in Poland continue to try and sabotage the efforts to changing the law.
A fire that started in the Shifat Revivim synagogue near the Chabad neighborhood in Netanya, Israel Monday night incinerated 10 Sifrei Torah, some of them critically. There were no human casualties.
A 55-year-old man was beaten by a Charedi ‘Tznius Patrol’ in the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood of Jerusalem on motzei Shabbos, and is reported to be in moderate-to-serious condition.
After a frantic search that lasted over twelve hours, Shimon Zorger, the 10 year old Williamsburg boy who vanished last night from Kiryas Joel, has been located.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has been elected chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, while Rabbi David Lau has been elected chief Ashkenazi rabbi.
Jurors in a child abuse case against a Crown Heights man expressed anti-Semitic bias even before the trial went underway, a member of the panel said in a bombshell interview.
Anti-Semitic incidents jumped 27-percent in New York last year, according to a new report.
A battle to control the word “kosher” in Internet addresses is pitting Jewish groups against each other to determine whether a food prepared under ancient strictures should have a new marketplace online.
On a Sunday evening in early June, thousands of Hasidic men in long coats and black hats braved the heat to attend two outdoor anti-Internet asifas (or gatherings in Yiddish) organized by leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. Women were forbidden, but the real temptation for the men was already in their laps, where they covertly thumbed their smartphones.
Hatzolah stepped up to the plate yesterday when it responded to a desperation call involving the collapse of a female staffer at a morning event in Williamsburg hosted by NYC Council speaker, and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn.
Another two tragedies in which an infant was forgotten in a vehicle in Eretz Yisrael R”L — ending in tragedy.
Following last Friday’s decision made by the Polish Parliament (Sejm) essentially banning all Kosher butchering from taking place in the country, General Director of the European Jewish Association (EJA), Rabbi Menachem Margolin has conducted a series of intensive talks with polish leaders and representatives in the E.U Parliament.
Vienna’s Jewish community says a historically important trove of ancient Jewish tombstones have been recently unearthed, including some dating back to the 16th century.
Much of Toronto has had power restored after last night’s torrential rains which overwhelmed the area, stranding commuters and motorists and leaving 300,000 customers without electricity. Still, the relief may be short lived as meteorologists warn of potential thunderstorms and lightning that may strike the area both tonight and tomorrow night.
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The past decade has seen a marked increase in the number of private Jewish day schools and yeshivas actively looking to tap into federal and state tax dollars for help, and as the number of institutions has risen, so too have the ways in which state lobbyists and organizational coalitions are approaching the matter.
Elana Saperstein felt like she’d wrong turns in her life, but stopping at the Mitzvah Tank in Midtown Manhattan one summer day was not one of them. That stop led to chance encounter that would lead to Chava’le Mishulovin donating her a kidney.
Rephael Yoel Ozer, an adorable two year old toddler residing in Clifton, NJ, was hit and crushed by a car four months ago. His injuries were so severe that doctors r”l did give him much of a chance. Now, his family released a video detailing his miraculous recovery. Video fixed.
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