Sun, Surf and Shabbos on Spain’s Sun Coast

A Jewish concert sponsored by Chabad drew 2000 people to a bullring in Estepona last week.

For the kosher traveler, vacationing often requires more careful packing and planning. Outside of well traveled Jewish destinations, kosher restaurants—prevalent and popular as they are—are still few and far between. And staples like glatt kosher chicken, meat, and even dairy products (of strict kosher certification standards) are not readily available in local supermarkets.

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Videos: Be’er Sheva Residents Document Missile Attack

Residents of Be’er Sheva documented events in their city Saturday as Hamas launched a large-scale attack, with rockets raining down upon the city. The Iron Dome system’s intervention was also caught on film.

Conejo Valley in Spiritual Bloom

Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.

Artist’s rendering of the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Agoura Hills, opening September 2011.

One year after they opened Chabad of Agoura Hills in 1986, Chabad officials decided to hold a Chanukah festival at an Agoura Hills mall. They put up a menorah and, soon thereafter, received an anonymous phone call demanding its removal.

Amidst ’91 Coup, Russian Jewry Kept Summer Camps Open

Children and their counselors pose for a group photo at a Chabad-Lubavitch run summer camp outside Moscow in the early 1990s.

As the world watched hard-line Communists make their last-ditch effort 20 years ago to reclaim control of the fracturing Soviet Union, a young Rabbi Berel Lazar was due to return to Moscow. Lazar, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was then rabbi of the Russian capital’s Marina Roscha district, had been in New York attending to his wife and newborn baby. The August coup of 1991 – known popularly as the Putsch – began a day before their scheduled return.

Al Sharpton Defends Himself in Daily News Op-Ed, Refuses to Apologize

Daily News

The Rev. Al Sharpton joins black demonstrators marching in protest after days of rioting in Crown Heights in 1991.

Twenty years after the Crown Heights riots, the city has grown, and I believe I have grown. I’d like to share a few of my reflections about the choices I made, including the mistakes, with an eye toward advancing racial understanding and harmony.

Video: Days 1 and 2 of the Crown Heights Riots

CBS, ABC and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.

Over 800 Attend Jewish Retreat in Old Greenwich

Greenwich Time

People listen to David Nesenoff’s lecture, “To Catch an Anti-Semite” at the sixth annual National Jewish Retreat, hosted by the Chabad-Lubavitch Rohr Jewish Learning Institute at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich.

As the smell of Kosher cooking wafted from the hallway, a silent audience sat captivated while political pundits Mark Mellman and William Kristol, a frequent commentator on Fox News, joined Rabbi Levei Shemtov at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich to discuss the effect of American news on the Jewish community.

PA Approves $1.50 Increase for E-ZPass Drivers

NY Daily News

The Port Authority, its proposed huge toll hikes dialed down by Govs. Cuomo and Christie, approved an increase Friday of $1.50 for E-ZPass drivers beginning next month. The PA board unanimously voted yes on the proposal following a 60-minute meeting largely devoid of drama or disgust. The new prices are effective Sept. 18.