Its no joke, the suspect accused of torching a dozen mezuzahs in Williamsburg this week has confessed to hate crime charges. According to his own social media posting it was retaliation for burning Chometz! After being pressed by cops he finally admitted his role in the arson’s.
In the second episode of Freeda Wigs ongoing makeover series, Susie – a mother of three – is the lucky winner of the Freeda ambush makeover.
Reports of a major crash in Haifa, Israel that has claimed the lives of at least six people are coming in. Police are investigating the cause of the collisions, in which a truck smashed into a number of cars and pedestrians and may have been intentional. Police confirms that the crash was the result of failed brakes and not a terrorist attack. UPDATES.
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage took on the topic of metzitza b’peh in his Savage Nation program yesterday, devoting the entire program to the practice.
On a day when the world remembered the millions who died in the Holocaust, a dozen Jewish residents of a Brooklyn apartment building had religious objects torched by a hate-filled vandal.
In a story appearing in London’s Daily Mail a photo of terrorist Osama Bin Laden appeared side by side with that of Rabbi Sholom Mendel Simpson, one of the Rebbes secrataries, along with the caption ‘spot the religious extremist’. The disturbing and offensive likening of the two came in a story about a U.S. Army Reserve presentation which lumped many different religious groups into the ‘extremist’ category.
Today came the saddening news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher first female British Prime Minster, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ for her staunch conservative stand. She came to know of the Rebbe during her tenure as the Minister of Education and to greatly admire him, she recalled the Rebbes exemplary leadership in an interview.
Pesach used to be considered a time of constipation and ‘bad-food’ but today we know that Pesach can be a time of ‘great-food’ filled with foods that cleanse, heal and rejuvenate. There are so many ways to use Pesach as a time to revitalize the system—you just need to know how.
Crown Heights handmade matzoh has become a Manhattan money maker. Ritzy Upper East Side markets are selling boxes of the Passover staple for twice the Brooklyn price, the Daily News has found.
This past Sunday the Bukharian Jewish Community Foundation celebrated 50 years to its founding in the USA. The Gala Dinner event took place at the Center, and the guest of honor was President of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews, Levi Leviev, a prominent businessman and philanthropist whose parents Reb Avner and Chana Leviev’s names are proudly displayed on the premises of the Center’s building.
Prospect Park officials are urging Jews to stop throwing bread into the green space’s massive lake as a Passover rite, but religious Brooklynites insist that’s not even part of their holiday tradition.
Just over a year ago a terrorist walked into the courtyard of the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse, France and murdered a teacher and three students in cold blood. Today the community got together to remember the victims.
When Julio Acevedo was arraigned last month on a drunken driving bust, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Gary refused to set bail and declined to suspend the ex-con’s license, even though he told it was mandatory. ‘I don’t believe that I must do it,’ he said, saying a judge presiding Accevedo’s next court date on April 10 could ‘correct’ him if he was wrong. He should have never been behind the wheel.
In Midwood, Brooklyn, there’s a luxury kosher grocery store called Pomegranate serving the modern Orthodox and Hasidic communities. It looks like a really nice Whole Foods. There’s a wide selection of kosher cheeses from Italy and France, wasabi herring, gluten-free ritual foods and nicely toned wood flooring.
If you’re looking to move to an apartment on or near Park Avenue, be prepared to break open the piggy bank. Prices are higher than ever and developers are squabbling over construction rights. That’s Park Avenue, Brooklyn – not its swankier Manhattan namesake.
A group of over 20 artists got together to celebrate the ‘zaidy’ of Jewish music, releasing an album with 30 of Moshe Yess’s songs. PLUS: Three full tracks inside.
He waived extradition. Now Julio Acevedo, 44, should wave goodbye to freedom. With a desperado’s face only a mugshot photographer could love, Acevedo listened to a local district attorney advise the judge that the suspect wanted to waive extradition to Brooklyn, where he was wanted in the Sunday hit-and-run wreck that killed Nachman and Raizel Glauber, both 21.
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