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IDF Chief-of-Staff Visits Chabad School in Beijing

The Students of Ganeinu International School and MAC (Menorah Academy of the Capital) Middle School welcomed Lt. General Benny Gantz, Chief-of-Staff of the IDF, and his delegation to their school in the Rohr Family Chabad Community Centre in Beijing, China.

Bill Introduced to Ban Anonymous Online Commenting

Time

Many visitors to blogs and news websites enjoy the liberty to post comments online without revealing their identity, but if a proposed bill in the New York State Assembly is passed, that common practice may become illegal.

Op-Ed: Breaking the Silence

I have been getting many texts and emails asking me to weigh in on the latest New York Times article entitled, ‘Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own,’ regarding the reports of horrific abuse cases that have gone ignored or have been swept under the rug by religious leaders in the Orthodox Jewish community.

A Run on Chocolate Chips at Trader Joe’s

Wall Street Journal

Mrs. Shulamis Labkowski bought 40 packets when she heard about the switch.

Looking in her cupboard last week, Shulamis Labkowski got a morsel of unwelcome news. The mother of three from Oakland, Calif., inspected three bags of Trader Joe’s semisweet chocolate chips, a staple in her kosher kitchen. They were alike in all ways but one: Two of them had a small D on the label, meaning they were classified as dairy under Jewish dietary laws.

Video: Chazon Ish Did Not Give Up on At-Risk Student

At a private event for Shuvu held in Flatbush last night, noted speaker Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, spiritual leader of Congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad in Crown Heights and dean of TheYeshiva.net, spoke passionately about the importance of valuing each and every Jew, no matter what their affiliation or their current state of religiosity.

Man Confesses to 1979 Killing of Jewish Child

FBI and NYPD law enforcement officials search a SoHo basement at the corner of Wooster and Prince streets for the possible remains of missing child Etan Patz. Inset: Etan in 1978.

A man in police custody has confessed to strangling Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons, the New York Times is reporting.

Friendship Circle Takes a Stand Against Bullying

Oakland Press

Left: Students from five Metro Detroit high schools gathered together for the final culmination of eight months of an anti-bullying training program. Right: Mrs. Bassie Shemtov, Director of Friendship Circle and Upstander.

Some 200 students gathered recently at the Berman Theater inside of the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield, MI for the “Upstander Unite” event.