While many other parts of the continent continue to institute restrictions and bans on the practice, the Bochurim in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France learned the ancient Jewish laws of compassionate slaughter – Shchita.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Kopel will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘is Judaism a religion?’
In honor of the completion of the fifth Sefer Torah for Jewish children, we present this collection of photos of brochures for ‘Os B’sefer Torah’ since the Mivtza’s inception in 1981.
The National Jewish Retreat held this past week in Weston, Florida, was a sold-out phenomenon that drew on an international roster of speakers, teachers and outstanding personalities from the business and academic worlds. Some 800 Jews from all over the world gathered for five days of inspiration and learning sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
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In a video series titled ‘Tangled Web,’ NY1 has waded into the touchy subject of Orthodox Jewry’s relationship with the internet. While the first three videos shared stories about rabbis trying to limit access to the Internet, the fourth report covers the rabbis who want people to make their site, Chabad.org, the go-to place for all Jewish learning.
Crown Heights icon Rabbi Chaim Baruch Halberstam has moved from his Shlichus in WLCC to a new shlichus; this time it is in the room where he started off.
“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
Thousands attended a concert earlier this week at ‘The Sultan’s Pool’ in Jerusalem featuring Hasidic superstar Avraham Fried, who mesmerized the crowd with songs from his new album, as well as a medley of Chabad nigunim.
Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.
A Lexus SUV and a Dodge minivan collided on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Carroll St. at around 5:30pm today. The accident occurred after one of the drivers took a red light, but it is unclear which.
Benny Friedman, the puppets from Mitzvah Boulevard and several other Jewish artists talk about their upcoming releases.
The members of the Crown Heights Beis Din visited Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushka, as Rabbi Yirmi Katz and Elozar Raichik poured the concrete for the main basin. According to Rabbi Katz, the Mikvah will be one of the Most Mehudar Mikvahs in the United States.
Rabbi David Nesenoff recently spoke at Chabad House of Miami Beach and the Chabad Lubavitch’s National Retreat in Weston, Florida about spirituality, media bias and the aftermath of the Helen Thomas incident.
Mendel Lazar (Lancaster, CA) and Naomi Hahn (Morristown, NJ)
Congregation Ohel Chabad Lubavitch has filed a request with the city to place a charter bus stop near the cemetery in Cambria Heights where the Orthodox sect’s beloved leader is interred. The goal is to more easily accommodate the hundreds of pilgrims who visit the site each day and the thousands who stop by on special religious occasions.
The decision is in.
El Al Israel Airlines will honor all of the cheap plane tickets it never meant to sell. Additionally, they are offering all these passengers the option of flying non-stop for an additional fee of $75.
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman has had hardly a moment’s rest since his recent move to Oro Valley. Zimmerman, 26, started receiving phone calls almost immediately after coming to town with his wife Mushkie and two daughters, Devora and Chana, to set up Chabad of Oro Valley – a branch of the international Jewish outreach organization that already had three locations in the Tucson area.
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