The US Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the suspect in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
Graffiti was painted on the exterior of a historic yeshiva on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, JTA reported on Monday. The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim building was vandalized between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, possibly while students were inside, according to the report.
To help fund their efforts to spread chassidus throughout the east coast and beyond, Keren Meir is holding its annual fundraising raffle for 2 tickets to anywhere worldwide and a weekend stay at a 5 star hotel.
On the morning that the 53,000 square foot LifeTown center first opened its doors in Livingston, N.J., in December 2018, Jason Campbell, its therapy director, found himself in the complex’s manicured indoor park. He watched as a dozen or so children with special needs played together with their volunteer teen buddies. “This is the best therapy,” he observed. “It is even better because there are no therapists working with the kids. It’s just real life.”
Earlier today, IDF troops located an explosive device that was placed on a road near Elon Moreh, northeast of Shechem. Additional troops arrived at the scene and blocked the road as police sappers neutralized the explosive device.
Marking the seventy-fifth yahrzeit of the Rebbe’s father, hundreds of Rabbonim, Chassidim, Anash and Jews from all communities joined the 9th annual Yarchei Kallah in the Chabad Beis Menachem Shul of Tannersville, New York. A seudas mitzvah was served, and participants listened to the Divrei Torah of the Rabbonim, as well as a powerful message from the Bostoner Rebbe.
Watch as Operation Survival discusses difficult parents with Shimon Waronker, Ed.D for the prevention 101 series. Dr. Waronker received his BA from the Univ. of Maryland; and Ph.D. from Harvard. He is the former Principal of the Jordan L. Mott School, S. Bronx.
The week started off in the Turkey basketball where campers prepared to leave camp due to numerous code violations, when in fact it was a breakout for color war! Teams Tevia and the winning team of Kmoso battled it out through the plays and skits, from MBP to cheering, from the beginning this was a hard fought battle. The fun filled week included a visit to the Ohel, and the sad moment when the campers had to say goodbye.
Israeli security forces have captured the terrorists responsible for the bomb attack Friday which killed an Israeli teen and injured her father and brother. IDF forces working with the Shin Bet internal security agency captured the terrorists in a pre-dawn operation Monday morning.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on the exterior walls of a synagogue in Connecticut over Friday night. The graffiti on the Congregation Adath Israel synagogue building in Newtown was discovered at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, according to the report bu JTA.
A Siyum of the Rambam’s Mishnah Torah and Sefer HaMitzvos was held at the Hallandale Chof Av Farbrengen at Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch this past Wednesday night.
The US State Department appears to have removed the Palestinian Authority from its list of Middle Eastern “Countries and Areas” on its website. The list of countries and areas includes Israel, Jordan and Egypt, but the term Palestinian Authority or Palestinian Territories is now conspicuously absent from the site, although it still appears in the archived content.
The topics in this week’s 274th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Attitude Should We Have to Superstition, Ayin Hora and the Likes? Do You Recommend Reading Books on Intimacy by Known Rabbis? Why Is There Such Conflict About Saying Yechi? What Relationship Should We Have with the Physical Objects in Our Lives? What Is the Source and Reason for Married Women Covering Their Hair? Do Current Events Have Any Deeper Connection with the Hebrew Dates When They Occur? How Can We Make Sense of the Different Ways That Jews Practice Judaism When We Have Only One G-d and One Torah?
Three rockets fired from Gaza landed in Southern Israel Sunday evening. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome, and another landed in an open area. No injuries were reported from the impact.
At a nondescript desk in the corner of JEM’s office, Zalmy Ceitlin sits staring at a video of the Rebbe pouring kos shel brachah. With a phenomenal memory for faces, names and events, and having combed through thousands of hours of footage, he is the address people are turning to for a memento of their encounter with the Rebbe
An Israeli drone fell in the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut and a second one exploded near the ground early on Sunday, the Lebanese army and Hezbollah said, in the first such incident in more than a decade.
Each week in Camp Emunah’s BJJ teen camp, campers were notified of candle lighting time by chalk messages on the floor. In true camp spirit, the girls who returned home this week went on mivtzoyim all over the US, and spread the message of candle lighting time with chalk messages.
