In a video interview released today on BRIC TV, a channel discussing issues of interest to Brooklyn residents, three panelists: Naftali Moster, founder of YAFFED, Amy Sara Clark, editor of The Jewish Week, and community activist Ezra Friedlander tackled the hot-button issue of secular education in Chasidic Yeshivas – or the alleged lack thereof.
As a young teenager looking for a healthy after-school activity, Golda Reichman joined an all-women’s kickboxing class in her hometown of Detroit, MI. “I gained strength and confidence, and soon I was going a few evenings a week trying out a variety of workouts. I found it to be an amazing outlet and physical fitness has been a huge part of my life ever since,” she says of the experience. Now, she is determined to share that passion for physical health and fitness with the Crown Heights Jewish community, which is why she created StreetLite.
Today, Tuesday, a Palestinian terrorist drove his vehicle into a group of Israelis near the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the West Bank. The attack follows two previous attacks that occurred in the West Bank today: an Israeli citizen was hit by a truck and killed after his car was pelted with stones, and the attempted stabbing of an IDF soldier – both of which occurred near Chevron.
Shortly after the hustle and bustle of Tishrei, close to 300 Crown Heights high school girls gathered for their annual Friendship Circle volunteer kickoff and registration.
Vaad Hakashrus of Crown Heights has filed a lawsuit in Federal court claiming a number of food establishments, wine producers and rabbis are using its trademarked “CHK” logo without being certified.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Lech Lecha. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we experience miracles?
Hudy Slater (Crown Heights) and Malka Colin (Lost Angeles, CA)
The 7th bi-annual clothing project is well on its way in more than 50 cities throughout Russia and Ukraine, a joint initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) , the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) and Gloria Jeans clothing company.
A Crown Heights mother wrote the following op-ed to CrownHeights.info, expressing her gratitude to her son’s principal, who made sure that the boys who went to school on Sunday instead of the Kosher Day fair did not feel left out.
While thousands of people gathered in Manhattan’s Times Square for a rally supporting Israel and denouncing Palestinian terrorism today, a counter-rally was held nearby, in which the tiny Jewish state was denounced for daring to defend itself. One of the headline speakers at this protest was a member of the anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Neturei Karta.
Over one hundred women travelled from Poltava, Summy, Kharkov and Cherkass – as well as other cities and towns in northeastern Ukraine – to Haditch, the site of the Alter Rebbe’s Tziyun, for an inspiring Hakhel gathering.
Palestinian incitement against Israelis is similar to the Nazi dehumanization of Jews before and during the Holocaust, Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune said in an interview on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on Saturday night.
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 is a day that will always be remembered with sadness for the student body of the close-knit Torah Day School in Houston. On that day, they were told that seventh-grader Mendel Cotlar had suddenly lost his life from unexpected complications from GSD-1A, a metabolic disease. Only three weeks beforehand, they had sang and danced with him at his bar mitzvah celebration.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a delegation of representatives of the Russian Jewish Community, headed by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, and Mr. Lev Leviev, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC).
Mendy Wilschanski (Morristown, NJ) and Brocho (bas R’ Benyomin) Serebranski (Melbourne, Australia)
Eliyahu Raskin (Brooklyn Heights, NY) and Shaindy Holtzberg (Georgetown, NY)
A petition calling for the ouster of MSNBC news reporter Ayman Mohyeldin for providing biased coverage of events in Israel has exceeded its goal of 5,000 signatures in just two days.
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