In 1948, Leibel Posner was about to spend five weeks on the road, traveling throughout the farmlands, towns and cities of New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Nowadays, even as air travel, GPS navigation and videoconferencing make for a more modern-day experience, the underlying themes of Torah, ahavas Yisrael (love of the Jewish people) and selfless dedication remain the same.
Along with several other members of the Glasgow Jewish community, Rabbi Chaim and Sora Jacobs of Lubavitch attended the Royal Garden Party at the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh this week, as guests of her majesty the Queen.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations are suspended on Thursday, July 4, for observance of Independence Day.
In honor of the 39th birthday of Shliach and founder of Shmais News Service Rabbi Levi Hadakov hosted a farbrengen. A reader sent us this photo of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, farbrenging together.
Chabad in Milan, Italy will open the city’s first-ever kosher soup kitchen by summer’s end. According to Rabbi Avraham Hazan, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in the city, the kitchen’s “Meals on Wheels” style dinners will partner with the city’s official home-delivery system to bring kosher food to needy families and hospitalized patients.
Why do men wear black and white and women wear all colors? How does the Torah deal with the age of the earth? Why can’t women be rabbis? These are some of the questions that were posed to 3 of the greatest minds.
Before a friendly game of Softball between the NYPD and Hatzalah, the Mezamrim Choir were brought out to open the game with them singing our national anthem.
Meet ‘Klooger,’ the game that is rocking Learning Class at Camp Gan Israel, New York.
CGI Parksville NY is proud to announce the launch of a truly revolutionary program, calling it, ‘Gan Yisroel Elite.’ This unique program was designed to enhance the campers appreciation of yiddishkeit and chassidishkeit.
Seven years ago, Glasgow Shluchim Rabbi Chaim and Sora Jacobs recognized the lack of a proper Kosher eatery, so they opened the L’Chaim Kosher Restaurant – a first such establishment in their area. Now they opened a first all kosher wine store after dealing with shortages in local supermarkets.
Three people were injured in two separate car crashes in Crown Heights. Both accidents involved only a single moving car and occurred within 30 minutes of each other.
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