Picture of the Day: A Friendship Blossoms
Sarochel Markel (right) and her longtime JNet chavrusa, Shoshana (Jessica) Nocks (left), started learning over the phone with JNet when they were both single.
Sarochel Markel (right) and her longtime JNet chavrusa, Shoshana (Jessica) Nocks (left), started learning over the phone with JNet when they were both single.
Naftali Fishman (Los Angeles, CA) and Shterny Rapp (Melbourne, Australia)
Baltimore’s Cheder Chabad is planning major expansions for the upcoming school year.
New South Wales Premier the honorable Barry O’Farrel hosted an “Iftar Dinner to celebrate Interfaith Harmony” at Parliament House on Thursday, July 26. ‘Iftar’ is the traditional Muslim evening meal following the day of fasting during the month of Ramadan.
The Tarlow family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their son and brother, Yossi OBM, at 226 Sussex Ave. in Morristown, NJ.
Shachris: 9:00am
Mincha: 8:00pm
Maariv: 9:00pm
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Rabbi Yossi Lew of Chabad-Lubavitch of Georgia joined CNN’s Randi Kaye to discuss the significance of the sites presidential candidate Mitt Romney is visiting in Israel.
Bochurim in YSP’s pre-Mesivta program sat down on overturned chairs for the recitation of eicha.
Shmuli and Aidy (nee Katzman) Bendet (Crown Heights)
Campers in Camp Gan Israel Parksville, NY sit atop overturned benches and together recite eicha bemoaning the breaching of Jerusalem’s walls.
In this video from Camp Gan Yisroel Montreal, campers play the crazy game of “Buck Buck” on Tisha B’av evening in 1993.
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A new MetroCard could soon cost a buck more — and that’s before you even put any money on it.
Congregants recite the book of Eicha at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel on Tisha B’av.
[Please note: Video has music in the background.]
On the 19th of Kislev in 1798, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, a Hasidic leader, was released from prison in St Petersburg. He had been arrested on charges of treason, laid by Jews who opposed the nascent movement of Hasidism (a mystical variety of Orthodox Judaism) as a heresy. In Phnom Penh on the 19th of Kislev last year, a dozen Jews celebrated the 214th “Festival of Redemption” at the home of Rabbi Bentzion and Mashie Butman, the shluchim (emissaries) of Chabad in Cambodia.
Comments have been circulating, accusing Mitt Romney of ‘disrespect’ and poor choice in selecting Tisha Be’Av, a day of national Jewish mourning over the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, for his photo-op tour of the Jewish State. Frankly, I personally can’t think of a better day for him to visit.