Robbinsville and Hamilton are very different townships. Situated near Trenton, one is residential, the other more of a commercial area. But both had no Jewish infrastructure. This past July Rabbi Yaakov and Chana Chaiton were appointed new Chabad representatives to the area.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to a non-Jew who questioned why it is that Jews feel so strongly that the Gentiles are not well disposed toward them and even seem suspicious and fearful of non-Jews. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Today, the FDNY EMS HAZ and TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The patient is a health care worker who returned to the U.S. within the past 21 days from one of the three West African countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus.
Rabbi Gershon Elisha Schochet, Av Beis Din of Toronto, released today a second letter in response to a general misunderstanding of his first letter, in which he espoused a Halachic prohibition on promoting the book of Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
The path to New York almost always comes with one story or another. In the case of Chie Nishio, it turns out to be a photographic one.
On Wednesday night, Hundreds attended the funeral of Chaya Zisel Braun, the three-month-old baby who was killed earlier in the day when a terrorist rammed his vehicle into her family as they disembarked from the Jerusalem Light Rail.
Moscow’s largest Yeshiva, which stands adjacent to the Marina Roscha Synagogue, celebrated the inauguration of their new spacious state-of-the-art building on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
After it was banned by leading Rabbonim last year amid a community uproar, the ‘Call of the Shofar’ – labeled a cult by experts in the field – seems to be attempting a comeback in the Chabad community under a new name: From Galut to Geula.
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