What makes a chicken kosher? How do you prepare challah for Shabbat? Do eggs have to be kosher? Assimilation, and more recently, anti-Semitism by Muslims, have taken a toll on Denmark’s 6000 Jews who tend to keep a low profile. Exposure to Judaism is limited in a climate that is less than ideal, but Jews came out to participate, learn and celebrate at Copenhagen’s monthly Jewish Festival sponsored by Chabad.
Yechiel Friedman has refused to give his wife a get for nearly 18 years, says the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA). As a result, a member of ORA forced Friedman out of a minyan at the Yeshiva University synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday, following the ruling of the Beth Din of America calling to ostracize Friedman until he relents and lets his wife move on.
The chairman of Israel’s national lottery, Uzi Dayan, visited Kfar Chabad today as a guest of Tze’irei Agudas Chabad, under the leadership of Rabbi Yosef Aharonov.
Terrorists recently attempted an unprecedented coordinated detonation of two explosive devices near a Chabad of Hebron facility, according to an indictment presented by the IDF Prosecutor’s Office.
A crowd of 500 gathered Tuesday evening at the Capitale on Bowery, including philanthropists Joseph and Deborah Aronow, tycoon Donald Trump and speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, for The Algemeiner’s second annual ‘Jewish 100′ Gala.
Tokyo has long been recognized as a culinary capital of the world, boasting the greatest number of restaurants conferred three stars by Michelin, the famous gastronomic guide.
Mrs. Sarah Shemtov is the daughter of Dr. Robert (Moshe) Feldman, who cared for the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin until their passing. Mrs. Shemtov and her husband Rabbi Levi Shemtov have been shluchim in Riverdale, New York since 1992. She was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in January of 2008.
At around 3:00am Sunday morning, February 1st, a 32-year-old woman was walking on Troy Ave. between Sterling and Park when she was approached from behind by a man wearing a black ‘hoodie.’
The driver of an SUV at the center of a deadly crash with a New York commuter train has been identified as Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from suburban Scarsdale who was an active member of her local Chabad synagogue.
