The Matzav Network is reporting that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was placed in solitary confinement after his cell mate threatened to kill him.
The Matzav Network is reporting that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was placed in solitary confinement after his cell mate threatened to kill him.
More than 900 New Yorkers – mostly Orthodox Jewish men – have been infected with mumps since an outbreak this summer, the city Health Department reported Tuesday.
That’s the most cases since 1979, when there were 157, and comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 1,500 mumps cases in New York and New Jersey as of January.
The following is a unique photo gallery of the snow storm which began last night and continued throughout the day today.
ISRAEL [CHI] — Friends and supporters of Ohr Simcha in Kfar Chabad gathered in the house of the British Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Tom Philip, to celebrate the Bar Mitzva of thirteen Children who reside at Ohr Simcha.
Members of the JCM’s golf committee holds their second planning meeting for its fourth annual Golf outing, Chaired by Mark Engel of Langsam Properties Services.
TAPUACH JCT., Israel [INN] — A Palestinian Authority policeman murdered an IDF soldier Wednesday at the Tapuach Junction in northern Samaria. The name of the soldier has been released: St.-Sgt. Ihab Hatib from the northern village Maghar that has a large Druze population.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — Rabbi Zalman Liberow was discharged from the hospital yesterday, Tuesday. He was transferred from the Presbyterian-UPMC Hospital in Pittsburgh with an Air Ambulance to Haym Solomon Home in Brooklyn.
OCEANSIDE, NY — Rarely has a single day — one day less of Hebrew school instruction a week, to be exact — so polarized a Jewish community. But in the desperate fight for Jewish souls playing out in the Long Island town of Oceanside, Chabad of Oceanside’s one-day-a-week Hebrew school, now in its 10th year and drawing a big crowd of students, is tearing the community apart, the town’s leaders suggest.
NEW YORK [ABC] — Twelve images newly released by the government of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center provide a fresh look at the tragedy and its impact on New York City.
Designers and planners met recently on the 4th floor of the Jewish Childrens Museum to put the finishing touches on the plans for the exhibits.
In this video produced by Chabad of Sderot, Israel, they show how the lives of average people are effected by by terrorist attacks.
ISRAEL — Some call it “fate,” but the Greenbergs prefer “mission.” The children of Rabbi Moshe and Devorah Greenberg—there are seventeen in all—were raised in Bnei Brak, Israel. But today the family is dispersed around the globe in places as remote as Alaska, Ukraine, and Shanghai.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Shalom ben Sara Leah
Chaim ben Chana
Hundreds of Scotland’s Jews filled a hall in the Glasgow suburb of Giffnock for an exhibition extolling the variety of kosher foodstuffs in today’s marketplace.
COSTA RICA — Along with their country’s first female President elect, Costa Ricans will now have a Jewish VP as well.
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