The president of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, prayed at the Western Wall amid his official state visit to Israel. Accompanying the president was Rabbi Yisroel Uzan, Shliach to Nigeria, along with a hundred or so Nigerian ministers and regional governors.
I’m sure many of you have heard or read about the recent Pew statistics on American Jewry and the depressing findings. Approximately 22 percent of Jewish Americans don’t identify with any religion and in responding to the Pew poll categorized themselves as Jews of No Religion.
Yesterday in the evening Shomrim were alerted to two crimes involving young Crown Heights women. In the first – a girl’s phone was mugged. In the second – a young teenager was groped.
Sixteen-year-old Lola Flomen spent Sunday afternoon with friends at Trudeau Park in Montreal’s Cote S. Luc neighborhood. Yes, many of were high school classmates, but dozens of her playmates were children with special needs.
The streets of Central Harlem were filled with music and dancing Sunday as, for the first time in almost a century, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the neighborhood’s Chabad Shul. The last time a similar event occurred was during the Great Depression.
This year’s Kinus Hashluchim will begin in a unique and grand fashion with the completion of four Sifrei Torah, along with the beginning of a fifth Torah, which are being dedicated to the Rebbe “who sent Shluchim worldwide to care for all Jews.”
South Africa was privy to two special shows, titled ‘Voices,’ which featured Benny Friedman and Gad Elbaz at the Teatro at Montecasion. Both shows were sold-out successes.
Crown Heights women gathered for an evening titled “Working it OUT with the IN-Laws” hosted by Rabbi Mendel Samuels, Shliach to Simsbury, CT. Laced with witty humor, the crowd was offered practical tips on respectfully avoiding problems with their in-laws.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos.
In honor of the 90th birthday of Rabbi J.J. Hecht, we present a collection of photos of him cheering up children at a Chanukah rally in 770, circa early 1970’s.
A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even afford to rebuild.
For the second time in three weeks, a water main burst in Montreal’s Westbury area, and many homeowners will spend their day cleaning their basements and reporting the damages to their insurance agencies.
Last week the wedding of Yehuda Geisinsky and Chana Blumes, both of Crown Heights, took place in the Oholei Torah ballroom.
Jerusalem-born Oren Rahat describes himself as a Modern Orthodox Jew. A graduate of Religious-Zionist yeshivahs, he has always valued Torah study as an important part of his life.
The Mikvah for Keilim adjacent to Crown Heights’ Sterling Electronics is under threat of closure after mounds of garbage left by patrons raised the ire of neighbors.
Rabbi Moshe Klein’s wiry, exacting hands scratched the last of 304,805 Hebrew characters in black ink on vellum Sunday afternoon, completing the Saratoga Chabad House’s newest Torah, and a year of painstaking labor.
Rabbi Zalman Yaffe, chief rabbi of the Russian city of Volgagrad (formerly Stalingrad), went this morning to donate blood for the victims of a bus bombing in his city last week.
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