A Chabad rabbi in California is sharing a heart-warming story to cheer up Americans still reeling from last weekend’s violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.
Holocaust Museum of Montana, a recently formed nonprofit by Shluchim to Bozeman Rabbi Chaim and Chavie Bruk, announced its plan to build an educational facility on 5 acres of land in the city.
A van driven by a suspected terrorist rammed into pedestrians in a popular tourist area of Barcelona, Spain, right outside a Kosher restaurant run by the local Chabad emissary, Rabbi Dovid Liberson. At least 13 people have been reported dead in the attack, and many were injured, none patrons of the restaurant.
Today there are no Kosher options in the entire Downtown Brooklyn area. There are also no wholesome, gourmet food carts or trucks in the area – for Kosher eaters and non-Kosher eaters alike. By using natural, minimally processed beef and serving handcrafted Burgers prepared fresh daily, JJ’s Holy Cow will shift consumer expectations of what a food cart can offer, as well as provide tens of thousands of Kosher consumers with great food.
A dispute over a parking place in the Bergen Beach section of Brooklyn went horribly wrong last night, ending in the death of a 23 year old member of the Sephardic Jewish community.
Update: Arrest made.
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Yisrael Kristal, a Frum Jew and Holocaust survivor from Haifa who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world, has died a month before his 114th birthday.
A former Crown Heights Esrog vendor has become one of the few voices of optimism this month, as those who involved in distributing and selling the prized citron express fears there won’t be enough to meet the demand this year.
A Russian entrepreneur has launched the initial offering of a cryptocurrency aimed primarily at the Jewish market on Wednesday that would conform to Jewish law and offer participants interest-free loans. The name of the digital currency: BitCoen.
A Sydney council which blocked the building of a Chabad synagogue it deemed a ‘terror threat’ is reportedly set to backflip on its decision in the wake of widespread outrage.
A Monsey lawyer is looking to change the way traffic violations are handled in New York City, with an online petition that he hopes will convince lawmakers to disband an administrative traffic court bureau that was created more than four decades ago.
Municipal officials in Millburn, NJ, are looking into an anti-Semitic diatribe that was faxed to Town Hall on Monday.
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A Lebanese man in the United States has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for arranging to send weapons to a Hezbollah member in Lebanon. What makes this short sentence flabbergasting is the judge in the case is none other than the notorious Linda Reade.
By now, Calabria’s delicate citron trees should be straining under the weight of heavy green fruit, ready to be harvested. The Cedro della Riviera dei Cedri, or Calabria citron, grows nowhere else in the world but a portion of this southern coastal region of Italy, a small area of farmland squeezed between blue sea on one side and green mountains on the other.
In a rare move and after facing criticism at town hall meetings, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York’s Junior Democratic Senator, withdrew her sponsorship of an anti-BDS bill.
A recent discovery by Rabbi Moshe Thaler, director of Chabad of Berditchev, has led to speculation over whether the building constructed to house the resting place of the Kedushas Levi, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, OBM, is indeed in the correct location.
A Sydney council has banned the construction of a Chabad synagogue in the neighborhood of Bondi because it could be a terrorist target, in a shock move that religious leaders say has caved in to Islamic extremism and created a dangerous precedent.
Take a 360 degree tour of the second Beis Hamikdosh, exactly as it stood in all its glory in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, courtesy of simulation created on the Google Maps platform.
Crown Heights Women for the Safety and Integrity of Israel, an advocacy group, protested a decision by the Israeli Government to remove security measures from the Temple Mount, such as metal detectors, which were recently installed in the aftermath of a terror attack that left an Israeli policeman dead.
The director of the Chabad center serving the University of California-Davis told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that he was “taking seriously” a Friday sermon made by the imam of the local mosque that some have called antisemitic.
Some 60 headstones were toppled in a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, CT, but local police say they do not believe a hate crime was committed.
Meet Alex and Shifra Klein of Los Angeles, California, who produce kosher-certified cannabis edibles for medicinal use in the Orthodox-Jewish community.