Authorities arrested a man they said stole a $450 silver crown from a Hollywood synagogue and then sold it for profit in North Miami.
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Considering sending your child to yeshiva? Think again. Or rather, don’t send them. So I learned from my grandfather, the esteemed Lubavitcher chosid, Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovsky. He planted this seed in my head over 30 years ago, on a walk down Nashville’s stately West End Avenue going home from my father’s shul to my parent’s home at the corner of Whitland and Leonard.
Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge’s Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by ‘Police Chief’ (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”
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Lubavitcher Bochur Yosef Abrahamson has been selected to receive the very competitive and prestigious honor to serve as a Page for the Republican National Convention, where Mitt Romney will be officially nominated to run for president. The convention will take place at the end of August in Tampa Bay, Florida.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of farbrengens with the Rebbe in the mid 1970s.
While many other parts of the continent continue to institute restrictions and bans on the practice, the Bochurim in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France learned the ancient Jewish laws of compassionate slaughter – Shchita.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Kopel will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘is Judaism a religion?’
In honor of the completion of the fifth Sefer Torah for Jewish children, we present this collection of photos of brochures for ‘Os B’sefer Torah’ since the Mivtza’s inception in 1981.
The National Jewish Retreat held this past week in Weston, Florida, was a sold-out phenomenon that drew on an international roster of speakers, teachers and outstanding personalities from the business and academic worlds. Some 800 Jews from all over the world gathered for five days of inspiration and learning sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
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In a video series titled ‘Tangled Web,’ NY1 has waded into the touchy subject of Orthodox Jewry’s relationship with the internet. While the first three videos shared stories about rabbis trying to limit access to the Internet, the fourth report covers the rabbis who want people to make their site, Chabad.org, the go-to place for all Jewish learning.
Crown Heights icon Rabbi Chaim Baruch Halberstam has moved from his Shlichus in WLCC to a new shlichus; this time it is in the room where he started off.
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