Jordana Stein was the first person to use the mikvah in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. She held open the double doors and walked through, passing stunning decor and even a waterfall on the way to immerse herself in the community’s newly established ritual bath. “It was different from anything I’ve ever experienced,” reports the local resident. “It was wonderful.”
Murder took a holiday last week. There were no murders in the five boroughs in the seven days ending last Sunday, the mayor’s office said on Monday.
An estimated 70,000 Jews visited Kever Rochel in the West Bank city of Beis Lechem yesterday, on the Matriarch’s Yahrtzeit – 11 Cheshvan.
On the day after the first debate pitting him against Democratic frontrunner Bill de Blasio, Republican mayoral contender Joseph Lhota unleashed an ad warning that New York will fall into criminal chaos if de Blasio prevails.
Over forty Bochurim studying in Oholei Torah and Chovevei Torah have volunteered for the Crown Heights Friendship Circle. Throughout the year, they will dedicate their daily dinner break to visit special needs children in their homes, study and interact with them, and accompany them to Friendship Circle’s various programs and activities.
Yesterday afternoon a Jewish girl was walking down Brooklyn Ave. near Empire Blvd. when she was approached by a group of five African-American boys ages 12-15. One of them snatched her phone from her hand and they all ran off.
Emissaries of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Nepal are fighting against the clock to prevent the cremation of a Jewish woman killed in a tragic bus accident Monday.
Tomorrow, Thursday, the 13th of Cheshvan (October 17), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12. Buses will leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm. Transportation will cost $3.
It was 8:55 last Tuesday morning and the bus was late. We’d been waiting impatiently outside since 8:20 and when I was sure the bus was not going to show I decided to drive my boys to school. As we approached the car I told my sons that since we have three available seats in the car, they may offer a ride to three other boys who were still waiting.
On Saturday, Oct. 17 members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) from Topeka, Kansas exited their rental van and became a dark cloud of “equal opportunity haters” across the street from Chabad of University City in San Diego, CA.
“My parents brainwashed me? Yeah my father twisted my infant brain in such a horrific way that he made me value my integrity; and to make matters even worse he led by example,” declares Ethan Metzger at the first Annual Bronx Youth Poetry Slam at the Kingsbridge Library in the Bronx, NY.
The Colel Chabad social welfare branch of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has officially opened a new Pantry Packers facility in Jerusalem on Friday.
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