With schools finally set to reopen for the new year, teachers are busy preparing for their return to the classroom. To help them put their best foot forward, Igud Hamelamdim held its sixth annual Teacher’s Training Course.
Rabbi Zecharia and Rivkah Phillips arrived in the city of Walnut Creek, twenty-five miles east of San Francisco, last week. They will expand the preschool established by Rabbi Dovber and Chaya Berkowitz and focus on youth and teen programs in Contra Costa.
Rabbi Sholom Hecht opened Hecht’s Judaica on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1969, but his first foray into the business was nearly 20 years earlier, in 1950. He passed away on 22 Tammuz, the yahrzeit of his father, Yehoshua Hecht.
With great sadness we report the sudden passing of Reb Yehudah Dov (Leibish) Greenbaum OBM, a member of anash in North Miami Beach, Florida. He passed away on Monday, the 4th of Elul, 5780. Updated with Levaya information.
Four terrorists from the Islamic Jihad organization were killed in a so-called “work accident” in the Gaza Strip late on Monday. According to Kan 11 News, which cited Palestinian Arab sources, the terrorists were killed while preparing rockets to fire toward Israel.
An eleven year old boy and four babies had their bris in a COVID world thanks to a Shliach, and a Doctor quarantined for 14 days.
The National Guard was called in to quell fiery riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin — as protesters defied a curfew to loot and destroy a mostly black business area they are supposedly trying to defend following the police shooting of a local black man.
Non-Israeli passport holders who do not come from countries with low coronavirus infection rates will be banned from entering the country until at least Oct. 1.
A two car motor vehicle accident in Crown Heights involving a police vehicle left two people with minor injuries Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday dropped its recommendation for travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon returning from trips overseas or out of state during the coronavirus pandemic.
1000 young people from Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Israel, USA, Panama, Mexico, Chile, Paraguay and ten other countries, connected to a virtual world youth meeting, termed a pegisha.
An elderly couple that heads one of the oldest Yemenite Jewish families has arrived safely in Abu Dhabi, where they were reunited with their relatives. The rescue came about as a result of the joint efforts of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Rabbi Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia.
An impressive and rare coin hoard from the Abbasid period, dating around 1,100 years ago, was uncovered during the construction of a neighborhood in the center of the country.
Anti-police protests erupted Sunday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just hours after a police officer was filmed shooting a black man in the back as he tried to enter his car.
US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients, in a move he called “a breakthrough.”
A success as hundreds of preteens participated in Camp Crate sessions this summer, giving them an opportunity they would have never dreamed would be possible in their situation.
Hatzalah divisions across the globe are known for their care, professionalism, and fast response. Soon they may be known for the using flying ambulances as well.
