Israel’s Deputy Minister of Health, Yaakov Litsman, who was recently in Moscow to attend the World Forum of Health Ministers, paid a visit to the Moscow Jewish Community Center in the Marina Roscha neighborhood.
The number of clean subway cars has declined since 2009, according to the 12th annual “Subway Shmutz” survey released Thursday by the watchdog group Straphangers Campaign.
As CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger got ready for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting of more than 20,000 shareholders, Rabbi Mendel and Shani Katzman prepared for an influx of guests of their own.
Mike Jablon’s entire family line would have been snuffed out 70 years ago if it hadn’t been for a fake U.S. passport.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Three Jewish women fell victim to a sicko who accosted them in two separate incidents, even chasing after one of them, while exposing himself and shouting obscenities. Shomrim chased the pervert, who managed to get away, while they waited for police officers to respond.
Parade organizers met with police community affairs officers and discussed the route which the parade will take this year. CrownHeights.info has learned that this year organizers will try and have the marching go through the center of Eastern Parkway, rather then just the service lane.
Genetic engineering is only permissible by Jewish law when it is used to preserve life, and it should not be used in pursuit of specific personality and physical traits, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Chabad’s scholar-in-residence from Harvard University, said during a talk in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s teen division has announced a partnership with a Washington, D.C. based consulting group. The firm will help affiliates engage their local communities and maximize student recruitment.
There was a contentious hearing Tuesday on New York City’s controversial pedestrian plaza program. One city councilman demanded that the Department of Transportation get back to basics and fix basic infrastructure.
Three rabbinical students will bike coast-to-coast this summer to benefit Friendship Circle International.
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