Gennady Kaufman, the 41-year-old victim of terrorist stabbing attack at the beginning of the month near the Me’aras Hamachpela in Chevron, died of his wounds at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.
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A fire broke out this morning on the 5th floor of a Crown Heights apartment building, located at 560 Lefferts Ave. near the corner of Kingston Ave.
Sefer Shemos begins with again listing the names of the Yaakov’s children. Explore the importance and influence of a name, and other intriguing curios on Jewish names. For example, why don’t we find reference to anyone being named Gad and Asher – names from the Shevatim – throughout the entire era of Mishnah and Gemarah? Rabbi Mendel Kaplan even shares a compelling theory on the origin and meaning of the name Mendel.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Monday which will require that all new smoke detectors sold in the state contain 10-year, non-removable batteries.
Three young Jewish men approached Reb Getche Vilensky’s Moscow apartment, hoping to join him that evening in celebrating the Chassidic holiday of 19 Kislev. It was the late 1950s; times were dangerous. In the building’s dark entryway lurked a Soviet policeman, waiting for them.
The NYPD is once again combing the streets of Brooklyn for clues after a 17 year old Flatbush Orthodox Jewish teen was assaulted last night on his way home from yeshiva.
One of the state’s largest independent suppliers of electricity and gas for residential customers has agreed to refund nearly $1 million to resolve complaints about its billing practices.
Mesivta Lev Tmimim Lubavitch of Monsey celebrated the Simcha of their new Sefer Torah Sunday. The ceremony was the culmination of the Avos Ubonim Shabbaton, at which almost all fathers of the boys in the Yeshiva – all of whom are out-of-towners – came to spend 48 hours of learning, Davening, Farbrenging, and inspiration with their sons.
Menachem Mendel Bryski (Agoura Hills, CA) and Adelle Chaya Mushka Hess (Lomita, CA)
London experienced a massive surge in anti-Semitism in 2015, with anti-Semitic incidents up more than 60 percent over the previous year.
Zalman and Miriam (nee Lustig) Heber (Tacoma, WA)
A new poll has shown that a “growing majority” – now 67% of Palestinian Arabs – support the recent scourge of terrorist knife attacks, car rammings and murders of Israeli Jews, while only and 31% oppose it.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shemos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What should your attitude be when someone else is in trouble?
Coming up on the anniversary of the massacre at Paris’s ‘Hyper Cacher’ supermarket, Yochai Kfir and Yehuda Kalman present “Habayta,” performed by some of the top artists of Jewish Music: Avremi Roth, Avi Miller, David Solomon, Yossi Berger, Yitzchak Meir, Ishay Lapidot and The Moetzet, Ishay Ribo, Meir Green, Tzvi Weiss, Udi Ullmann and The Cantors Forum.
Michoel Dovid and Devorah Leah Leopold (Pittsburgh, PA)
Several decades ago, the veteran Chosid and talented artist Reb Hendel Lieberman, OBM, painted the above picture of the Rebbe leading a Farbrengen in 770, surrounded by hundreds of Chassidim. The painting seems innocuous, save for one unique detail: the Rebbe is wearing a Streimel.
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