On the eve of elections for the Israeli chief rabbinate, one of the more prominent candidates, Rabbi David Stav, told The Algemeiner that he believes he has what it takes to heal the growing rift in Israeli society between secular and orthodox Jews.
Motti and Devorah Leah (nee Clapman) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Avi and Fraida Boas (Crown Heights)
Avraham and Rivka Varnai (Chicago, IL)
When students started Skyping in to a weekly Parshah class from Thailand, Pearl Krasnjanski of Chabad-Lubavitch of Hawaii knew that there was something different about this particular learning experience.
The late philanthropist Sami Rohr (1926-2012) was a pillar of generosity throughout the Jewish world. In honor of his first Yahrtzeit, JEM released this video highlighting his special relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the support he gave to the Rebbe’s emissaries and programs throughout the world.
As a girl, I was afraid of my Hasidic neighbors. Twenty years later, I reached out to try to understand them
Heartfelt words, songs and awards graced Camp Gan Israel Parksville’s banquet on Sunday night, as staff and campers bid farewell to those not staying for the second month of summer.
Yesterday, on the 15th of Av, a Farbrengen was held in the small Zal of 770 in honor of the printing of the Tzemach Tzedek’s work ‘Or Hatorah’ by Kehot Publications.
I spent my first Shabbas in Sloan Kettering Hospital on March 2nd. Just a week earlier, my parents had hosted a large Purim celebration for family and friends. My mother, dressed in surgeon’s scrubs an Israeli doctor had given her when she took my father for a procedure at NYU Medical Center, and my father dressed as the “Laughing King,” entertained our twenty plus guests unaware of the devastation about to begin.
The election for new Chief Rabbis of Israel is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 17 Menachem Av, 5773. The voters, numbering 150 delegates, will vote in the Leonardo Jerusalem Plaza Hotel on King George Street.
Zalman and Dit Greenberg (Bethlehem, PA)
On Sunday, campers and their parents enjoyed an exciting and fun-filled visiting day together at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Jurors in a child abuse case against a Crown Heights man expressed anti-Semitic bias even before the trial went underway, a member of the panel said in a bombshell interview.
Yisroel and Chanie (nee Benjaminson) Altein (Crown Heights)
Adam and Clara Chaya (nee Ulitsky) Epstein (Crown Heights)
