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.
Nossy and Nelly (nee Akuvaev) Slater (Crown Heights)
Yossel and Mimi (nee Lovitch) Greenman (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
An undated photo, taken circa 1910, of the Plotkin family in their hometown of Rogachov in present-day Belarus.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal were split into three teams for ‘Bog War,’ the first month of camp version of color war.
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.
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.
Eliyahu and Hannah Bracha (nee Gervais-Picard) Houri
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Another pin on the Gan Israel world map was just added. Smolensk, Russia just completed it’s first year of day camp.
For 15 years now, Chabad of the East Valley—in arid Arizona, one of the fastest-growing states in America—has been searching for a permanent home.
Chassidic rapper Ari Lesser busts out some rhymes in his latest composition in honor of Tisha B’av, titled “Sheyiboneh Beis Hamikdash.”
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