As he begged outside Brooklyn synagogues, Howard Frank was always regaling people with stories of his past, proudly referring to his distant esteemed rabbi relatives.
A storm erupted on the Jewish blogosphere last night, when photos emerged of what appeared to be New York City police officers arresting a Kallah in her wedding gown.
BBQ is a Kansas City tradition. Kansas City style BBQ is prepared differently than any other region of the country. But one local BBQ competition is taking the way KC prepares BBQ to a different level.
Several hundred Jews and their supporters marched in the southern Swedish city of Malmo on Saturday to bring attention to intolerance and anti-Semitic attacks in the Nordic country.
Columbia Presbyterian medical records for a baby who suffered brain damage after being infected with herpes (HSV-1) tell a shocking story of parents being threatened with trumped up criminal charges, unless they turned over information to authorities about the baby’s mohel.
A map created by the European Union lists undisputed Israeli cities such as [parts of] Modi’in – located midway between Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv – as “settlements” subject to trade restrictions.
The controversy had sparked a national debate, raucous protests in the streets and the collapse of a historic government. That came in the months after the Israeli Supreme Court had nullified a law exempting haredi Orthodox Israelis from military service and given the government until Aug. 1 to draft a replacement law.
A kosher ice cream truck war in Sullivan County, NY has resulted in two arrests. Update: CrownHeights.info has obtained a video of the incident.
The speculation in the media and among the so-called experts is mounting as the general consensus points to the likelihood of Israel ordering a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities sometime in the fall of 2012, in October. Military analysts are filling the news magazine programs with their analysis and predictions and newspapers are signaling the IAF attack against Iran is only weeks away.
Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge’s Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by ‘Police Chief’ (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”
“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
The decision is in.
El Al Israel Airlines will honor all of the cheap plane tickets it never meant to sell. Additionally, they are offering all these passengers the option of flying non-stop for an additional fee of $75.
A designer of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum is gathering chilling historical artifacts for Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum.
Two months ago, Miriam Leichtling’s parents lost their jobs within a week of each other. For several months, Leichtling, a New York designer who has led several organized trips to Israel, had been agonizing over how to scrape together enough money to send her parents, ages 66 and 71, to Israel. But the cost of airfare for three – normally starting at about $1,000 per ticket, with a layover — was prohibitive.
Police Officer Albert Mammon, 32, played ‘Shadchan’ on the Coney Island Boardwalk earlier this summer — and this month, two of the young Jews he introduced got engaged.
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Recently, an Israeli start-up company has begun marketing and selling special glasses in charedi neighborhoods such as Meah Shearim. The purpose of the glasses is to prevent charedi men from seeing immodestly-dressed women.
JTA reports that Estonia is moving to change its policy toward “shechita” or religious slaughter owing to the 2010 DialRel report which found that the method of stunning an animal is a better alternative than shechita.
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