It was an unusual sight on Friday night at Judaism’s most sacred site, the Western Wall. Around the blue-and-white Israeli flag, waving over the multitudes of Sabbath prayer-goers, a group of young adults were holding hands and dancing – in complete silence.
Every Friday night at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, students sit down for a Shabbat meal. The weekly meal, held in Lindebaum Kosher Kitchen, is the quintessential Jewish get-together: friends overtalk, overdrink, and overeat, all while celebrating the seventh day of the week on which the world’s creation was complete.
A letter was found that was written by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 1991 on the occasion of the birth of his son Yair.
A new report by London’s Institute for Jewish Policy Research concludes that younger British Jews posses a stronger Jewish identity than Britain’s older Jewish generations.
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Tuesday, February 4, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for Shoshana bas Tamar, who is undergoing a bone marrow transplant today. Her Kapital is 66.
Hundreds of people were joined by Rabbonim, Admorim and Torah scholars for the celebration of the completion of the Rambam in the Israeli city of Beitar Illit.
A traffic nightmare has unfolded along Utica Ave. in Crown Heights, with dozens of MTA buses ensnared in gridlocked traffic, after several inches of snow descended upon New York City.
Dovid Efune, the editor-in-chief of the Algemeiner, appeared on The Blaze TV Channel to applaud actress Scarlett Johansson for standing up for whats right and exposing the lies of the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment) Movement.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Bryna Eisig, OBM, of Deerfield Beach, FL. She was 79.
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended citywide today, Monday, February 3, to facilitate winter weather preparations. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
Moishe and Rochie (nee Polter) Liberow (Monsey, NY)
Menachem and Chaya (nee Gutnick) Korf (Crown Heights)
Starbucks has nothing on Rabbi Yonason Denebeim. But he may have something on the downtown Palm Springs coffee attraction.
A young Lubavitcher, who had just recently celebrated his engagement, showed up at the IDF offices in Israel expecting to submit himself to the army draft. Instead of being signed up, he was arrested for being AWOL.
It is unclear why, but a video uploaded to YouTube by CrownHeights.info in December of 2010 is suddenly seeing renewed interest, making its rounds through social media and going viral a second time.
22 years ago Mrs. Pesha Leah Lapine was murdered al kiddush hashem. The Rebbe took it very personally and attended her Levaya. Later, the Rebbe gave over a Sicha, which was seemingly more addressed to G-d rather than the people in the room.
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