Mr. Chaim Hirsch (Hermann) Kahn, one of the oldest Jews in Oslo, rubbed his eyes in disbelief last week. “I have been living here for the last 70 years and never believed that in my lifetime I would witness what I saw today.”
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef She’ar Yashuv Cohen, a veteran leader of Israeli Jewry, a close friend of Chabad and a confidant of the Rebbe.
Crown Heights activist Reb Yisroel Shemtov puts on Tefilin with an NYPD sergeant on duty for the Labor Day Parade. At his side is Shomrim coordinator Mendy Hershkop.
Like their counterparts in the West, most Jewish campers in the former Soviet Union receive the most extensive, joyous and impactful encounters with their heritage and traditions during the summer months. What makes some of the 5,000 campers in the 61 Chabad-Lubavitch Gan Israel camps in the FSU so different than others, though, is that many of them have suffered through the trauma of war, displacement and even witnessing death, while many others come from families whose connection with their Jewish roots was severed during decades of Soviet oppression.
The Albany Times-Union interviewed Chabad Shluchim Rabbi Leible and Elisheva Morrison of Troy, NY, after their synagogue made it onto the National Register of Historic Places.
A multilevel parking garage under construction in the city of Tel Aviv collapsed on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring about 17 others, Israeli police and rescuers said, as rescue teams worked frantically to locate several people believed trapped under the rubble.
The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met last week with the Rabbi of the Jewish community and Chabad Shliach in Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal. During this meeting, Steinmeier congratulated Rabbi Teichtal on reaching 20 years of rabbinical public service in the capital Berlin, and wished him much success in his future endeavors.
Jewish singing star Shuky Sadon is back! Fresh off the release of this year’s debut album, “Yamim Baim,” which had a lot of success on the Radio in Israel, the USA and France, Shuky closes out the summer season with a wild new single called “Kulam Rokdim,” which will make you dance, jump and sing along!
Rabbi Mikhael and Esther Cohen, directors of the Francophone Jewish community of New York (CCF), welcome the newly-appointed French Consul to New York, Miss Anne-Claire Legendre.
Thousands of NYPD officers and light towers did not deter the violence at last night’s J’ouvert festivals, where two people were shot dead and another four were injured from gunshots and stabbings.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Miriam Blachman OBM, matriarch of a large family who lived in Far Rockaway, NY. She was 91 years old.
