In a follow up to the story we published last week – of an 83-year-old man who put on Tefilin for the first time, Rabbi Moshe Klein returned to the old-age home this week with a decorated cake, which he presented to the ‘Bar Mitzvah boy.’
Anti-Semitic incidents jumped 27-percent in New York last year, according to a new report.
As the International Maccabiah Games are well underway in Israel, there is one Holy Land team that participated in its own version of the Olympics far from home, and performed on a level every Jew should be proud of.
As the first month of summer wraps up, the staff at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY give a sneak peek at what’s in store for the second month of camp.
With the passing of Mr. Shmuel (“Sami”) Rohr one year ago, the Jewish people lost one of its most extraordinary sons.
A group of cyclists from around the country recently visited Oklahoma City to raise awareness of an international organization that connects people through friendship.
Despite much criticism from victims and activists, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has for years steadfastly refused to publish a list he keeps of hundreds of accused pedophiles in the Brooklyn Jewish community. Now facing viable opponents in his re-election bid for the first time in years, Hynes relented – somewhat – and released the names of a few dozen convicted abusers.
Three men and a woman, all African-American, were hit in an apparent drive-by shooting in Crown Heights just before 10:00pm last night (Sunday).
How does the Chassidic Rebbe, Reb Zusha of Anipoli, inspire non-Jewish record engineers to give it all they got? What do today’s youth have in common with the Cantonist degree in the times of Tsarist Russia? What song is going to be sung when Moshiach comes?
The squeaking of the tortilla machine inside Anita’s Tortilleria on East Jefferson Street pierced the air Thursday as hot corn tortillas rolled off the line during the tail end of the lunch rush.
Mother Nature’s wrath over the past two days has left heavy damage at a South Florida synagogue.
Shloimy and Chany (nee Greenwald) Rappoport (Crown Heights)
On the 15th of Av young men and women would meet in the vineyards of Jerusalem for the purpose of finding their soul-mate. The beautiful girls among them would declare that a young man aught set his eyes to beauty alone. The Talmud does not censure them, even mildly. But surely, as Scripture states, “Charm is false and beauty has no substance”?!
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
On his first presidential visit to the United States, President Zalman Shazar of Israel visits the Rebbe. 13 Av, 5726 — July 30, 1966.
Each Friday afternoon, students of the Rabbinical College of Australia (YG-Melbourne) and Mesivtah take part in Mivtzoim, and this past Sunday, the eve of the 15th of Av – 21 July, over 50 people regularly visited on Mivtzoim gathered to thank their Friday volunteers.
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