Only in the alternative reality of Michael Chabon’s fanciful best-selling novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” do three million Jews, rescued from the Holocaust, call Alaska home. The (real-life) reality is that only about 6,000 Jews live in the entire state. As I embarked on a recent trip up north, I didn’t expect to find much of a Jewish presence.
Israel’s prime minister declared Tuesday that his country will never allow Iran to get nuclear weapons, even if it has to act alone, and he dismissed the Iranian president’s “charm offensive” as a ruse to get relief from sanctions.
Police are investigating the theft of $25,800 worth of furniture taken from a garage owned by the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center of Columbus, Ohio.
Some Crown Heights residents no longer need to worry about skyscrapers and shopping malls disrupting their residential vibe.
Mendy Mimoun (Montrouge, France) and Chaya Mushka Zenou (Paris, France)
Sholom Ber and Estee Gottlieb (Crown Heights)
The trial of Mendel Beilis—a Jewish factory manager in Kiev, Ukraine, accused of murdering a Christian child to use his blood to bake matzah for Passover—began 100 years ago this month. Reported on closely by the international press, the world watched the unfolding—with reactions ranging from liberal astonishment to Jewish anguish to anti-Semitic satisfaction—of what was to be the last major blood-libel case of the 20th century.
With lawmakers in Washington at loggerheads over the same issues they’ve been arguing about for more than five years, the federal government has partially shut down.
Avremel and Nechamie Popack (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 317 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
On Sunday, the Yahrtzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev, two elderly Jewish men underwent a Bris Milah in Vinnitza, a town in central Ukraine just a few dozen miles down the road from Berdichev.
Yitzchok and Nina (nee Rosenfeld) Naparstek (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
A motion to ban the non-medical circumcision of males younger than 18 has been presented to the Swedish parliament.
A new letter from the Rebbe to President Ronald Reagan sheds light on the Rebbe’s approach to education – not just for Jews, but for all humankind.
A disturbing video has emerged from yesterday’s annual bikers’ event in New York City, showing the shocking moment a Range Rover drove through a crowd of motorbikes as it tried to escape a mob of dozens of bikers that surrounded it.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Eliyahu Raitport, OBM, a longtime resident of Boro Park, at the age of 87. He was known as a brilliant inventor who loved to Daven B’avodah. Levaya and Shiva info added.
Avraham Edery, a young Lubavitcher Cinematographer, captures the sights, sounds and spirit of Tishrei in Crown Heights in this short but captivating film.
A mobile Sukkah with several Bochurim on board brought the Mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog – as well as eating in the Sukkah – to many Jews in the shadow of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
