
Bloomberg Pledges to Restrict Metzitzah B’Peh
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday rebuffed rabbis’ threats of legal action if the city goes through with a proposal to restrict a controversial Orthodox Jewish circumcision procedure.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday rebuffed rabbis’ threats of legal action if the city goes through with a proposal to restrict a controversial Orthodox Jewish circumcision procedure.
Campers and staff at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ donned their Shabbos clothes and gathered for a group portrait on the campus’ baseball field.
25-year-old Martin Thomas was shot and killed in Crown Heights last night. The shooting took place on St. Johns Place near Schenectady Ave. shortly after 7:30pm. Another victim, a 24-year-old man, was shot in the right leg.
On Tuesday, August 7th, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society will hold their 10th annual Crown Heights/Flatbush barbecue, at 937 E. 22nd St. near Avenue I in Flatbush, at 7:00pm.
At Albany’s communal Siyum, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin introduced futuristic Halachic research on Digital communications, suggesting that Digital fluidity may be the ideal medium to expand and broadcast Oral Torah.
Keren Simchas Chosson V’kallah has founded a Young Leadership committee, which will focus on getting young people more involved in funding and organizing KSCVK’s activities. The new committee gathered for the very first time last night on the roof of 866 Eastern Parkway, where they engaged in a roundtable discussion and shared ideas about how to grow the organization, while enjoying a barbecue with a panoramic view of New York City’s skyline.
Syed Zabiuddin Ansari (alias Abu Jundal), a suspected key handler of the 26/11 attacks, now claims that he was only in charge of instructing the team of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists who made their way into Chabad House, popularly known as Nariman House, in Colaba market.
Campers and counselors gathered in the dining hall at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY to bid farewell to those leaving at the conclusion of the first month of summer vacation.
Rabbi Bentzion Butman got a royal welcome earlier this month when Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni invited the director of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Phnom Penh to a ceremony in celebration of the Asian country’s version of Arbor Day.
After moving between several temporary locations in Westport in recent years, the Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch of Westport appears to have found a home that is just right.
Last weekend, the founding conference of the Forum for Young Rabbis in Europe ended. The Forum was established by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe following the request of the chief rabbis of cities and communities in Europe to form a group of young rabbis who will share experiences and will receive help in cultivating leadership and skills within the rabbinate.