Shira Hirschman Weiss, an Orthodox-Jewish mother and writer, took to the pages of the Huffington Post to vent her frustration at the ever-rising cost of raising a Jewish family – especially the astronomical cost of tuition.
Last week, Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald, Director of NJOP, made a big announcement about running for President on the Shabbat Party. For President’s Day, Rabbi Buchwald took to the streets of New York City to campaign with a taste of Shabbat and share his excitement about Shabbat Across America, coming on March 4, 2016. The video was produced by filmmaker Mendy Pellin.
What appears to have been a tornado ripped through North Miami Beach a short while ago, lifting cars off the road, causing damage and wide-spread power outages. North Miami Beach is home to South Florida’s largest Orthodox-Jewish community, and its largest Lubavitch community as well.
Shmuly Wineberg (Vancouver, Canada) and Gisa (bas Mendel OBM) Schechter (Crown Heights)
Hillel Sperlin (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Deitsch (Philadelphia, PA)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Should we have compassion for sinners?
The greatest empires have been wiped off the map of history. How have the Jews survived? Mark Twain ponders this question in his essay Concerning the Jews. Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson answers by finding the one common denominator that has existed for over 3300 years of Jewish history.
The CTeen mitzvah booth made its debut at the BBYO International convention this past weekend. Two thousands teens took part in the mitzvah of Tefillin, Neshek, Mezuzah, Tzedakah, and Kashrus throughout the convention.
Lubavitcher Yossi Berkowitz dances with Breslov Chasidim operating a ‘Simcha Mobile’ at mile 7.5 of the Miami Half-Marathon. Yossi says the dance moves were taught to him by his cousin, Rabbi Yitzi Horowitz, who is battling ALS and for whose sake he was running.
Shmulie and Diana (nee Hochman) Weiss (Crown Heights)
Life in Stapleton, Colo., is taking off—and so is the Jewish community in this fledgling town in suburban Denver.
New York may allow the parents of young children to defer a piece of their state income taxes to help cover the cost of child care.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Levi (ben R’ Rachamim) Ladaev (Crown Heights) and Debby Nacca (Buenos Aires, Argentina), which took place in Crown Heights.
Zalman and Faiga (nee Edelman) Raskin (Melbourne, Australia)
Six people were killed when an Egged bus, line 402, traveling from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak crashed into a truck parked on the side of Highway 1 on Sunday evening.
Simcha and Yehudis (nee Katz) Cohen (Kingston, PA)
A grab bag of weather conditions — including snow and sleet — will descend on communities from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast, but with many people off for Presidents’ Day it may be just another day to hunker down.
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