At the appointed hour, Lavey Welton called on the throng to gather in the sanctuary, bellowing, “You can bring anything inside you like: cats, dogs, goats!”
Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg and his wife, Chana, arrived in El Paso 25 years ago with a baby boy. Following the tradition of his faith, Greenberg started the Chabad Lubavitch to reach out to other Jews. Greenberg estimates he had about eight families in his congregation.
As the sun’s rays start to play on Rome’s Coloseum, Mordechai Piazza Osep is setting up folding tables. It is not even 8:00 in the morning. Three men dressed in gladiator gear chat by the Metro entrance. The first batches of the day’s tourists are just starting to trickle in, posing for impossible shots of themselves against the massive stones. The gladiators are soon to become props in their classic “Rome-visit” photos.
HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Chabad 31st annual L’Chaim “To Life!” Telethon raised a total of over 4.2 million dollars during an intensely emotional 3 hour extravaganza. Due to the current challenging economic times, Chabad has worked overtime to service communities around the world through their centers, schools, homeless shelters and drug treatment centers.
Former republican presidential candidate governor Mike Huckabee spoke at a breakfast benefit for the Algemeiner and Gershon Jacobson Foundation, comparing president Obama to one who starts a fire then comes to help put out the blaze.
The Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement is making sure that Jews who pass through Israel’s capital will never have to hunt to find one of its famed Chabad Houses, just in time for the beginning of the Jewish New Year.
Dear Crownheights.info Readers:
As many of you have probably seen yesterday on this website, the NY Post ran an article about me and my business. The article certainly portrayed me and my business in a less than positive light. But I can live with that. My business is very controversial, and I have brought lawsuits against some very wealthy and powerful individuals. Therefore, it was no surprise when one of the defendants in my lawsuits succeeded in having a tabloid run a story about me containing many extreme exaggerations and misrepresentations regarding me and my motives, in an effort to clear his name in the press rather than in a courtroom, where law and reality govern. But the underlying merits of the article are not the subject of this letter.
Free checking is going the way of the free checked bag.
A tradition of leaving the stove on during holidays in the Orthodox community is causing concern for some North Jersey fire officials who are trying to reach observant Jewish residents with a message about safety.
President Obama spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus awards banquet over the weekend. His 28 minutes of remarks had a strange tone to them, as if somehow Obama was equating support for his jobs program legislation with the far more important and historic civil rights movement.
Ralph Musolino unreeled his Stanley tape measure across the walkway of a small park in TriBeCa, marking off space for the construction of a Jewish ritual hut known as a sukkah, while Rabbi Zalman Paris, in auburn beard and tzitzit fringes, crouched nearby holding the tape’s other end.
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