The New York Times made a point of mentioning that two of the subjects of an FBI inquiry into corruption in the NYPD are Orthodox-Jewish men, violating their own policy of not bringing up a suspect’s race or religion if it has nothing to do with the crime being investigated. None of the other suspects’ race or religion is mentioned.
Rabbi Benny and Sonia Hershkovich, Shluchim to Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, and the funny duo behind the weekly Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought videos, will be heading a brand new summer program for 8th and 9th graders at Camp Emunah.
Mrs. Valerie Shore presently teaches in the Ganeynu program at the Jewish Community Center of West Palm Beach. She was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Chabad of Boca Raton in March of 2011.
Aryeh Leib Laufer (Crown Heights) and Sara Junik (Crown Heights)
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton, whose district includes Crown Heights.
It was two years ago that Debra Cordy found a small envelope tucked away in her parents’ home as she prepared to move her mother to an assisted-living facility. As she packed up her parents’ belongings, the handwritten word “Dachau” on the envelope caught her attention. When she opened it, she found a few fragments of what appeared to be human remains.
A liquor store clerk nearly got away with stealing a winning lottery ticket, worth over $800, from a group of Bochurim who had brought it in to authenticate their win.
Shneur Zalman and Rishe (nee Gopin) Simpson (Crown Heights)
Boruch Sholom Zajac (Montreal, Canada) and Chani Traxler (Houston, TX)
The students of Bnos Chomesh Academy (BCA) brought Abie Rotenberg’s beloved children’s tale, “The Golden Crown,” to life, not just with their authentic-looking costumes and beautiful scenery, but with the devotion and energy that they brought to portraying this story.
Montreal’s Côte des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grâce borough councillor Jeremy Searle accused a Chabad rabbi of invoking anti-Semitism and trying to instil “Jewish guilt” in opponents of a proposed housing project on the site of the former St. Columba Church.
A 22-year-old woman, who works as an impersonator of Princess Elsa from the Disney film Frozen, allegedly attacked and stabbed Fabio Serfaty, a prominent endocrinologist with celebrity patients, one block from a Chabad synagogue in the Leblon neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tazria. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one protect oneself from becoming impure?
With only two hours remaining in their drive to raise $500,000, Darchei Menachem needs that final push to get them over the finish line. Hear from parents, alumni, community leaders and activists why this institution is so vital to our community.
Not many college students go to Israel in the middle of a semester, but that is exactly where the student board of Chabad at Princeton University just went for a week of learning, touring and discussion.
A part of an apartment building’s facade fell apart and large chunks of bricks and cement came crashing down on a sidewalk four stories below. The building, which is owned by a group of investors, has a history of being neglected and repairs not being made.
The NYPD has pledged its full cooperation to the FBI in an unfolding corruption probe that reportedly involves numerous members of the police force, who are accused of accepting bribes from several prominent Orthodox-Jewish businessmen.
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