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Once again superstar Lipa Schmeltzer is using his celebrity status as a springboard for the greater good, with the release of a music video that uses a hit song to promote solidarity among Jews worldwide, no matter what their background or religious leanings.
Koren Publishers Jerusalem, an exhibitor at the National Jewish Retreat’s Resource Fair, created for the event a special booklet containing a selection from their new edition of the Steinsaltz Gemara. The first 12 pages of the Babylonian Talmud were specially printed and bound for the Retreat.
Once a Gotham-like void that went dark after the law offices, jewelry shops and fashion houses closed for the day, Los Angeles’ downtown is now a center of arts and culture, its trendy cafés and chic galleries entertaining a growing number of young professional residents.
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Crown Heights [CHI] — At around 8:00pm on Sunday, an Israeli Kvutzeh Bochur was sitting outside the bagel shop on Kingston Ave. when an African-American male approached him and snatched his iPhone right out of his hands.
New Orleans resident Jill Halpern raced home to do her laundry and bring her lawn art inside last night. She wanted to clean her clothes before the power went out, and to make sure there wasn’t anything in the yard that could go flying through the air and break through the glass.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, angered over the way a Russian TV station presented the history of the baby Gabriel, who was allegedly tortured to death by the Jews and then canonized by the Orthodox Church as a saint, published its protest.
Abdul Kareem was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, to a Muslim father from Sierra Leone and a Jewish mother originally from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Five teenage bicycle riders stayed at Manalapan’s Chabad of Western Monmouth County near the start of a weeklong ride from New York to Washington to raise funds for Friendship Circle International.
A Jewish student at Michigan State University was the victim of a hate crime where he was beaten unconscious and had his mouth stapled while his attackers made anti-Semitic taunts.
Mendy (ben R’ Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Sarah Glick (Crown Heights)
A YouTube clip released three weeks ago by Kraft Foods in order to market a new gum features an eclectic group of New Yorkers dancing on the subway, among them a Lubavitcher Chossid.
A young bride from Nachalas Har Chabad, married but one short month ago, was jailed in Israel and charged with defection from the IDF.
[Update: Judges rule she will remain in custody until Thursday.]
A new Chabad Tefillin app has strapped itself into a spot on Israel’s Top 30 Apps in the education category, with similarly impressive positions on the top 100 lists of France, Ukraine and South Africa.
Despite some unpredictable changes due to the weather, the 2012 page program is in full swing! One of the best parts about the program is meeting all my fellow young republicans from around the united states.
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David Bregman’s survival after being born prematurely at 25 weeks weighing just 740 grams (1.63 pounds) was received as a miracle by his parents.
Rabbi Zalman Wolowik, Shliach to The Five Towns; Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, director of the ‘Migdal Ohr’ foundation; and Rabbi Aron Shechter, Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin; were seen together fulfilling the mitzva of nichum availim in The Five Towns, NY.
Rabbi Mendy and Chaya Hecht and their daughter Haddassah have recently been appointed as the Chabad Shluchim to North Forest Hills in the Borough of Queens, NY. They will be opening and directing a new Chabad House to serve the north side of Forest Hills.
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