On Saturday, Oct. 17 members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) from Topeka, Kansas exited their rental van and became a dark cloud of “equal opportunity haters” across the street from Chabad of University City in San Diego, CA.
Yechiel and Chanie Belfer (Melbourne, Australia)
“My parents brainwashed me? Yeah my father twisted my infant brain in such a horrific way that he made me value my integrity; and to make matters even worse he led by example,” declares Ethan Metzger at the first Annual Bronx Youth Poetry Slam at the Kingsbridge Library in the Bronx, NY.
The Colel Chabad social welfare branch of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has officially opened a new Pantry Packers facility in Jerusalem on Friday.
Knesset Member Menachem Begin, later to become Prime Minster of Israel, dances with Lubavitcher Chassidim after returning from an audience with the Rebbe in New York, circa late 1960’s.
Over 80 Mikvahs entered a nationwide competition for the title of ‘most beautiful Mikvah in Israel.’ The winner: a Chabad Mikvah in Maaleh Efraim, built by local Shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Glitzenstein.
Over the past week or so in Crown Heights there have been several incidents of jaywalkers being ticketed by police for crossing the street on a red light.
At about 2:00 in the afternoon yesterday, a Jewish woman from Borough Park was walking on Eastern Parkway near Rogers Ave. when she was accosted by a mugger, who snatched her purse and ran off.
On Monday, TruthRevolt.org spoke with Norman Rosenbaum, brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, the Orthodox Jew murdered by a mob in Crown Heights in 1991. During the riot, Al Sharpton declared, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
In his debut music video, Meir Goldberg offers a new twist on the classic English-Yiddish song, My Yiddishe Mama, infusing the 1920’s musical gem both with his own talents and a flavor that manages to be both hip and touching.
On Monday morning, a Lubavitcher woman launched a one-person protest outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. The woman, who we will call N, is protesting the arrest of her husband.
It was with much fanfare on Monday afternoon that head coach Rudy Garbalosa proudly announced the signing of 10-year old Ari Cohen to the Lynn Fighting Knights at a press conference surrounded by family and friends at the Lynn University Baseball Field in Boca Raton, FL.
The National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education released an entertaining animated video to inform Jewish public school students about the Released Time Program, which has been running since the Frierdiker Rebbe founded it in 1941.
Rabbi Yechezkiel Tenenbaum begins with what has now become a routine account, at least, for him: “I am someone who first made news because of my beard.” By the way, “everyone calls me Chesky,” says this soft-spoken man who grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sure, it may have been fun at first: a couple of days off to catch up on errands or yard work, or visit family. But as the U.S. government shutdown enters its third week—it officially began at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1—federal employees are starting to feel the backlash of being caught up in a partisan battle over government spending.
Orthodox Jews call it a bubu. Religious Muslims call it a puff. Both are based on the same idea: stuffing something other than a woman’s real hair under her headscarf to create the illusion of long flowing tresses beneath.
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