Video: Lipa in Crown Heights

In his latest monthly segment of Rosh Chodesh with Reb Lipa, singing star Lipa Schmeltzer paid a visit to Crown Heights, “a place where you can hear wisdom and catchy melodies, and check out the spot where the tastiest gefilte fish is produced.”

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Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Israel?

A secular Israeli bus driver assaulted an Orthodox-Jewish passenger and shouted “we must kill all the Dossim!” – a pejorative term used to refer to Haredim in Israel – after falsely accusing him of not having paid the bus fare. It was the third such attack in as many days.

New Synagogue for Moscow Inmates‏

A new prayer-room was opened in a Moscow penitentiary last week, the 13th place of prayer for Jewish inmates throughout Russia in the country’s jails and penitentiary systems. The new prayer-room is shared with Muslim inmates, and the opening was attended by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, as well as chief mufti Izrat Halatudinov, generals from the Defense Ministry and city officials.