Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar discusses the newly-open Jewish museum in Moscow with Prime Time Russia.
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“Three thousand years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax to the first rabbi-manager in the big leagues?”
If 25-year-old Zev Icyk has his way, that statement will ring a little truer after the Toronto Blue Jays offer him the last managerial opening in baseball this winter. The lifelong Jays fan is currently studying at the Rabbinical College of America in New Jersey but told columnist Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun that he’d like to lead inside a stadium in addition to a synagogue.
Levi Freedman (Bahia Blanca, Argentina) and Malky Diskin (Munich, Germany)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent video greetings to the Chabad shluchim as they gathered in New York for their annual conference this week.
This gives new meaning to the concept of charity. A Borough Park lumber store is collecting used Muni-Meter receipts from customers in a cardboard box above its checkout counter in a new scam to help scofflaws trick the cash-strapped city.
At the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ, thousands of Jews gathered for the first day of KosherFest – a two-day annual Kosher food convention.
Shmuel and Henna (nee Haber) Kopel (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 770 Lefferts Ave.
[between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
The first session of Avos Ubanim, a weekly learning program for fathers and sons, took place on Motzei Shabbos at Chevra Shas.
A group of deaf bochurim rejoice with their friend, Isser Lubecki (Paris, France) who just got engaged to Hanaelle Israel (Sarcelle, France). Isser is known in his hometown for his enthusiasm for doing Mivtzoim, unhindered by his handicap.
More than 950 Montrealers of all ages gathered on Sunday, October 28th for a 3.3 kilometer trek around Hampstead Park to raise awareness and promote acceptance for children with autism and to raise funds for programming at the Friendship Circle.
At the Kinus Hasluchim Banquet a special video profiling the tri-state area Shluchim caught in Hurricane Sandys wrath. Rabbi Chaim Brikman, Chabad by the Ocean and Rabbi Eli Goodman, Chabad of Long Beach gave a tour of their personal devastation and how they mobilized to help out their communities.
Prominent Hasidic and Lithuanian Ultra-Orthodox rabbis are demanding that public institutions avoid installing self-locking door handles, which make it impossible to open rooms’ doors from the outside.
A young Jewish woman was viciously assaulted during an attempted robbery while walking on her way to work. A man approached her and without warning punched her in the face with such force that she was knocked out.
French photographer Mendel Benhamou went from table to table at the Kinus banquet taking pictures of the Shluchim from France.
The news quickly spread to the members of CTeen’s Teaneck, New Jersey chapter: Oceanside, New York was badly hurting from the fierce winds of Hurricane Sandy. Twelve volunteers sacrificed their day off from school and drove more than an hour to help the distressed residents of the Long Island town. As the van of teens approached the distraught neighborhood, the chaos and havoc they saw confirmed that what had been depicted in the news was no exaggeration.
Unique not only in its high-tech content but also in its political importance, a museum of Jewish history and culture opened to the public Sunday in Moscow, the capital of a nation beset by anti-Semitism for more than two centuries.
