Photo Gallery: Week 5 at Monsey Lubavitch Day Camp
Campers enjoy their Fifth week at Lubavitch Day Camp in Monsey, NY.
Campers enjoy their Fifth week at Lubavitch Day Camp in Monsey, NY.
An exquisitely detailed exhibition, depicting various Jewish holidays in both different times and places, has been drawing large crowds in Borough Park since its arrival from Israel three weeks ago.
Binyomin Lieblich (Crown Heights) and Zahava Shagalov (California / Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
On Yud Tes Kislev, 5743 — 1982, the Rebbe conducted his umpteenth Siyum Hashas. An excerpt.
Famed Chazzan Bentzion Miller and family sing the Alter Rebbe’s Avinu Malkeinu at a Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been assailed for saying at a fundraiser in Jerusalem that “culture” plays a large part in Israel’s superior “economic vitality” over the Palestinians, just as it does “between other countries that are near or next to each other. Chile and Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.” For this commonsensical statement of the obvious, he has been pilloried, not least by the Palestinian Authority’s Saeb Erekat, who described his remarks as “racist.”
Students of the graduating class of the Lubavitch Mesivta in Buenos Aires, Argentina pose for a group portrait outside their Yeshiva building, along with faculty members Rabbi Osher Farkash and Rabbi Moshe Gurary.
Close to 100,000 Orthodox Jews sang, danced and prayed inside what is billed as the world’s largest synagogue — at least for a night. MetLife Stadium was transformed Wednesday for a celebration of the completion of the reading of the Talmud, the book of Jewish laws and traditions.
Levi Gurevitch (Lyon, France) and Mushka Matusof (Cannes, France)
Hillel and Risa (nee Freeman) Gruber (Welwyn Garden City, UK)
For the second time in a month, evidence has surfaced about a case of neonatal herpes that shatters a myth about metzitzah b’peh (MBP) that the New York City Department of Health (DOH) is bent on propagating.
Levi (ben Sholom) Gurewitz (Lyon, France) and Mushka Matusof (Cannes, France)
Shlame and Miriam (nee Brook) Landa (Fairfield, CT)
It’s one thing to feel holiness when you enter a synagogue on Shabbat or a holy day. You go in expecting holiness. You expect that the rabbi’s sermon will inspire you; that you will have a spiritual experience and connect with God.
Last night after the campers had fallen fast asleep, the staff and counselors of Gan Israel Parksville made their way down to the camp square. What awaited them was a beautifully arranged BBQ!
Sara Slavin saw a real need in Mississauga for a Jewish summer day camp. The city’s Jewish population isn’t huge but the closest summer camps for Jewish children are in Hamilton and Toronto.