As the Washington Nationals’ final, 20th-round pick in the Major League Baseball draft, Elie Kligman became the second Orthodox Jewish player selected by an MLB team in two days.
Anti-Semitic crimes of all kinds are on the rise and Jews are being targeted regularly on the streets of New York. However, bringing criminals to justice has become increasingly challenging.
At 6-foot-6, 224 pounds and armed with a 97 mph fastball, Jacob Steinmetz has rare gifts for a 17-year-old. Those gifts have landed him a scholarship to Fordham University and could make him a lot of money in this week’s MLB draft.
The IDF delegation of rescue workers sent from Israel to Surfside Florida to assist in rescue efforts following the collapse of the Champlain Condominium will be returning home Sunday, and was sent off with a hero’s goodbye.
In a special announcement, the Neuwirth family has announced the commencement of the Devorie Neuwirth Hatzalah Sefer Torah, being written in memory of all those we lost at the Champlain Towers Surfside building collapse.
For the first time in the Western Wall Tunnels, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and the Israel Antiquities Authority are enabling the public to view impressive new sections of one of the most magnificent public buildings uncovered from the Second Temple period.
The number of confirmed dead at the site of the collapsed Florida condo building jumped to 60 overnight, with rescue workers pulling six more bodies from the rubble, officials said at a briefing Thursday morning.
As friends and family of the victims of the Surfside collapse face their grief, one person took to sharing her memories and positive lessons learned Mrs. Itty Ainsworth obm.
The Brooklyn College Library Archives and Special Collections has received a $150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) to create a new film archive on Hasidic Jewish culture in the United States.
Known for his million-dollar smile and deep passion for Judaism, Moises Rodan graduated just last month with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville. The evening that Champlain Towers South collapsed, he was staying at an apartment on the building’s third floor that belonged to his parents, Ricardo and Diana Rodan.
Estelle Hedaya has worked in the jewelry industry for more than 30 years, making countless friends along the way. Many have flooded her social media pages with prayers for her wellbeing and safety, after news broke she is among those missing in the tragic Champlain Tower South collapse.
Two more bodies have been recovered from a collapsed condo building in Florida, bringing the death toll to 24, as four more victims have been identified.
The lottery that took place in this week’s Parsha – to determine each of the Twelve Tribe’s portions in the Land of Israel – was actually a series of consecutive miracles – a 1 in 62 septillion [62,044,840,173,324,000,000,000,000] chance of happening.
Tzvi Ainsworth was visiting family in Montreal, where he met Itty Fellig. The two married and settled in his native Sydney, Australia. In recent years, the Ainsworths moved to Florida, where several of their adult children settled, as well as many members of the extended Fellig family.
A gregarious stockbroker with Merrill Lynch, Judy Spiegel was a dedicated volunteer at the Southampton Hospital’s Ellen Hermanson Breast Center on New York’s Long Island, on Holocaust memorial projects, and on giving back to her community in many other ways.
Two more bodies have been found as rescue workers continue to dig through the mountain of rubble where the Champlain Condominium collapsed, bringing the death to to 18.
In town to visit their parents, who had relocated to Florida, two brothers were spending time together in a condominium on the 11th floor of the Champlain Towers South at the time of the collapse.
