In a city where a bottle of kosher milk costs five dollars, even working individuals in Montreal struggle to put food on the table. A members-only operation like Costco, The Family Store sells subsidized groceries and home goods to over 500 Jewish families.
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The parents of Bais Rivkah students of grades 1-3, whose teachers have been on strike since before Pesach due to lack of pay, have just been informed that school will resume tomorrow, Wednesday, on a modified schedule. Unfortunately, the problems underlying the strike have yet to be resolved.
All of the sudden, without any warning, Shlucha Mrs. Rochel Kelman passed away, leaving behind a husband and 7 orphans. Now they need your help.
A 3-year-old boy died on Sunday after apparently choking on sand while playing in a sandbox at a daycare center in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.
Jerome explains why he is no longer a Litvak.
It was by the silence that Rabbi Yossi Deren, director of the Sunday Hebrew School at Chabad of Greenwich, Connecticut, knew his students were ready to reach out to a victim of ISIS’s genocide against the Yazidi people. “It wasn’t what they said. It was their silence and their intense concentration as they heard the story,” he said.
The children’s fair following the Eastern Parkway parade, always a highlight of the Great Parade, will move this year to Troy Ave. and Maple St., parade organizers have announced. The new location will provide additional room for the many rides, performers and food vendors that will feature at this year’s fair.
Roovy and Shevy (nee Leeds) Shapiro (Hallandale, FL)
After swastikas were drawn on the entrance to Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Fla., Jewish students were prompted to hold a program fostering awareness and education, complete with visuals, guest speakers and the assistance of the local Chabad.
President Donald Trump declared May 2017 Jewish American Heritage Month in a proclamation. The statement specifically mentioned his Jewish daughter, Ivanka, and her husband Jared Kushner.
Mendy and Chanie (nee Kohn) Cohen (Springfield, MA)
Two employees of an Israeli television channel have been fired after posting a staged video to Facebook that supposedly showed Charedi residents of Bnei Brak attacking a news reporter carrying an Israeli flag.
28 of the original coins minted for Lag B’omer 1990 still remain, parade organizers recently announced. Minted exclusively for the Lag B’omer Parade at the Rebbe’s request, these silver coins feature a Lag B’omer bonfire on one side and a picture of 770 on the other.
A possible end to the teachers’ strike in Bais Rivkah seems to be in sight, this according to sources within the administration, board and teachers group. The strike has left students of 18 classes without a proper school schedule since before Pesach.
Member of the IDF elite units Mr. Rami Sherman, best known for his heroic role in the 1976 Entebbe operation, was in Brussels, Belgium, for a speaking engagement. While there, Mr. Sherman also had meetings with The European Coalition for Israel, hosted at the EU Jewish Building, a Chabad-run cornerstone for Jewish activity at the EU Headquarters in Brussels.
According to a recent study titled “Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap,” approximately one in every 10 Americans over the age of 12 – roughly equal to the entire population of Texas – are addicted to alcohol and drugs. That number rises when one includes process addictions such as gambling, eating, gaming, internet, and inappropriate behavior.
The roughly 200 Shluchim who work to spread Judaism in and around Paris, France, gathered over the past weekend for the annual regional Kinus, with the participation of a special guest – Merkos Vice-Chairman Rabbi Moshe kotlarsky.
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