After more than half a century with no rabbi, no Jewish school or kosher butcher in town, Canberra’s 2000 Jews are beginning to see change.
Yud Shvat is a time for Farbrengens, kids included. It is the day of the Histalkus of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and the day that our Rebbe became Rebbe and made us who we are today.
Shliach to Brighton, England, Rabbi Pesach Efune celebrated his birthday with the completion of new Torah, written as a birthday gift from the community.
Lending serious weight to calls for a retrial in the Rubashkin case, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has filed a sharply worded amicus curiae brief with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, urging the court to vacate Sholom Mordechai’s conviction.
As thousands of Shluchos prepare their itineraries for their upcoming trip to New York for the Kinus Hashluchos at the end of the month, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch joined a meeting with the staff of Chabad House HQ (Suite 302) in a conference room in the offices above 770 to generate ideas to best serve them.
A Baltimore prosecutor has dismissed a felony assault charge against a member of a Jewish neighborhood watch group who was accused of striking a black teenager in November.
Boys from Friendship Circle enjoy a Kumzitz with Chaim Fogelman in honor of Yud Shvat at Dovid and Malkie Smetana’s home on Carroll Street.
MOSCOW [AFP] — RUSSIA said on Thursday it would not send any new art exhibitions to the United States until the two sides had settled a dispute over the return of a Jewish library to New York.
NEW YORK [NBC] — The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. More than 100 suspected mobsters are being arrested this morning in connection with numerous federal investigations into New York area mob groups.
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