Video: Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Devarim – titled ‘Happy-Sad-Happy.’
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Over 100 Study Beis Hamikdosh in Crown Heights
On Wednesday evening, hundreds gathered in the newly renovated Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway to learn about the Beis Hamidash.
Over These Do I Cry: Reflections on Tishah B’av
The designation of a day to commemorate a given event or segment of society, is a common occurrence among the world’s various nationalities and cultures. Americans, for example, celebrate Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, Presidents Day and a host of other special occasions, such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and even Secretary’s day.
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL
Here’s My Story: The Vanishing Loan
When I was thirteen years of age, I was doubly orphaned. My mother had passed away when I was a child, and then, when I was almost fourteen years old, I lost my father as well. I had to move into yeshiva full-time, as I had no other place to go.
by Rabbi Yitzchok Sufrin
Baby Girl!
Nossy and Nelly (nee Akuvaev) Slater (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Yossel and Mimi (nee Lovitch) Greenman (Los Angeles, CA)
Average Rent in NYC Rises to $3,000 Per Month
The fact that renting an apartment in New York City is expensive is as obvious to most people as the fact that the sky is blue. But a new report by the real estate research firm Reis Inc. said rental prices just went up.
CBS NY
From Days Gone By: The Plotkin Family, C. 1910
An undated photo, taken circa 1910, of the Plotkin family in their hometown of Rogachov in present-day Belarus.
Photos: ‘Bog War’ at CGI-Montreal
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal were split into three teams for ‘Bog War,’ the first month of camp version of color war.
Ancient Jewish Tombstones Found in Vienna
Vienna’s Jewish community says a historically important trove of ancient Jewish tombstones have been recently unearthed, including some dating back to the 16th century.
NY Daily News
NY Jets Player Speaks at Anti-Israel Conference
Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda.
by Joe Kaufman - FrontPage Magazine
Baby Girl!
Eliyahu and Hannah Bracha (nee Gervais-Picard) Houri
Photos: Mayor of Beitar Visits Chabad Library
The mayor of the Israeli town of Beitar, Rabbi Meir Rubenstein, along with an entourage of Rabbonim and municipal officials, visited the local Chabad library, where a collection of presentations and exhibitions on the Beis Hamikdosh are on display in honor of 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’av.
83-Year-Old in Tears as He Puts on Tefilin for First Time
Rabbi Moshe Klein of Crown Heights travels every Thursday to an old-age home to help the Jewish residents put on Tefilin. One elderly Jew would always refuse week after week, saying he never did it before and didn’t want to begin now.
Rabbi Levi Margolin
Op-Ed: Don’t Call Me Haredi
My parents raised me and my six siblings in Norfolk, VA, in essence, as the only “Haredi” kids in our day-school classes. As the “ultra-orthodox” kids who kept strict kosher, never drove on Shabbat, and who were wildly different from (and significantly shorter than!) the others. But yet, we were welcomed by our peers because we welcomed them.
New Engagement!
Mendel (ben R’ Shmuel) Katz (Chicago, IL) and Esther Golda (bas Dayan R’ Levi Y.) Raskin (London, UK)
L’chaim will be tonight (Thursday) at 695 E. New York Ave. [corner Albany] at 9:00pm
Chabad Rabbi Shimon Elharar stands next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing a small tallit as he writes a letter in a Torah Scroll at the Masada, Israel, on July 8, 2013.
Netanyahu Writes Letter in Torah at Chabad Center
As part of a tourism initiative this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the wind-swept Judean mountain top fortress of Masada, along the Dead Sea.
Arutz 7
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