
Israel Ends Run at World Baseball Classic
Team Israel ended its underdog run at the World Baseball Classic after losing 8-3 to Japan’s national team in Tokyo last night.
Team Israel ended its underdog run at the World Baseball Classic after losing 8-3 to Japan’s national team in Tokyo last night.
Dovid Fainzilber (San Jose, Costa Rica) and Shlomit Libersohn (Mexico City, Mexico)
A man was attacked and stabbed multiple times in a “special needs housing space” in the basement of a Lefferts Avenue home in Crown Heights. The incident arose from a dispute between two roommates, say witnesses.
Sometimes we know people who seem to be like a living example of a sefer. Yosef Chaim Paley, OBM, was a walking sefer on Ahavas Yisroel. He had a smile that would like up a room and a gentle, friendly personality that made him so pleasant to be around. Yossi was the child who loved everyone and whom everyone loved back. He was the kid who went over to the new child with a smile to make them feel welcome. Yossi always made sure that no one was excluded at recess.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended through Saturday, March 18, for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A Palestinian woman this morning rammed her car into a crowded bus stop at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, in an attempt to harm the group of Israeli civilians and soldiers who were standing there. Boruch Hashem, the car was stopped by metal bollards, and she was the only casualty.
In this music video, Jewish music superstars 8th Day perform Torah, a song from their new hit album, Slow Down.
Concerns about falling temperatures and icy conditions on roads and sidewalks across the Northeast followed a late-season storm that plastered the region with sleet and snow.
Adam Krief, a Jewish cancer patient whose search for a bone marrow donor captured the attention of social media and celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Mayim Bialik and Jason Biggs, has died.
Sruli and Mushka Deitsch (Bronxville, NY)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Tisa. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the key to eternal relationships?
The St. Louis man accused of making at least eight bomb threats against Jewish community centers and the Anti-Defamation League must remain in jail until his trial, a federal judge in that city ruled.
On Purim day, March 12, some 120 young Jewish adults came together for an evening of food, fun and Purim celebrations, held at the oldest mansion in Sydney – Juniper Hall.
Children with special needs and their families really did have a joyous Purim this year. The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn hosted its annual Purim Party on Sunday morning with over 120 children, siblings and parents in attendance.
Just days after the New York City Department of Health issued a warning to the medical community to be on the lookout for babies who contracted neonatal herpes via metzitzah b’peh, Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that he intends to reconsider whether or a 2015 deal that removed a requirement for parental consent is working as planned.
Snowed in? Was school or work cancelled? Take advantage of your day off and inspire yourself with meaning: JEM presents two beautiful playlists with hundreds of Rebbe videos, curated from their massive archive.
Despite the rising tide of anti-Semitism in France, the students of Cheder Lubavitch in Paris came to school proudly wearing their creative Purim costumes to participate in an exciting and fun Purim celebration.