Protesters targeting mining magnate Joseph Gutnick have abandoned plans to rally outside a Melbourne synagogue on the Sabbath, after an eleventh-hour realisation that their action could be viewed as anti-Semitic.
Hundreds of men joined Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah for their annual Motzai Shabbos event. Attendees Enjoyed a buffet serving a wide variety of foods, which was followed by the program which was emceed by Rabbi Mendel Duchman along with entertainment by ventriloquist Chuck Field. Also auctioned off was the first pies of pizza after Pesach from the new pizza shop Pomodori, selling for as high as $118 a pie!
Boys Town, Nebraska — On a clement winter day at the edge of the Plains, two men in black trod a kind of hallowed ground. One was a Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Steven E. Boes, and the other a Hasidic rabbi, Shais Taub.
All eyes were on Meir Shlomo Goldman last week as with one snip of the shears, his curly chestnut hair was cut for the first time in his life.
It was a sunny February Friday morning in Monsey, NY. A friend invited me to attend an Estate Sale. I’ve never been to an Estate sale, and am not even sure what they are. For some reason I decided to join along. Perhaps because he said it was just a few minutes’ drive from where we were and it wouldn’t take much time.
For the past few months talmidim in Grades 7 and 8 in Oholei Torah have been abuzz with preparations for a trip of the year, where the talmidim, Melamdim and hanhola spend quality time in a relaxed atmosphere, yet imbued with proper hanhogah and chassishikeit, befitting talmidim of Oholei Torah.
Yisroel Meir and Ellona (nee Hess) Munitz (Crown Heights)
Chanochi (ben R’ Yosef) Deitsch (Crown Heights) and Mushkie (bas R’ Levi Itche) Bruk (Crown Heights)
Bentzy Shemtov (Montevideo, Uruguay) and Menucha (bas R’ Chaim) Lapidus (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A suitcase – which has been sitting on Eastern Parkway near Brooklyn Avenue for a few days – was called in to 911 as a suspicious package just an hour ago. Police are taking no chances and shut down the entire area, causing traffic mayhem on Erev Shabbos just as school was being dismissed.
In the city where almost 70 years ago, Nazi forces committed the biggest single atrocity associated with the Holocaust in Russia, the local Jewish community is building programming models aimed at uniting Jewish youth across the country.
Chairman of the North Caucasus Muslims Coordination Center Ismail Berdiyev and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar expressed support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, crediting him with major achievements.
Last Sunday, 12th of Shevat 5772, hundreds of community members, prominent Rabbis and leaders from far and wide gathered together in Krefeld Germany to celebrate the re-dedication of a Sefer Torah that was saved from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Efraim and Sara’le (nee Fellig) Katz (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 367 Crown St.
[between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Menachem Mendel Oberlander, 20, after a prolonged illness. His parents, Rabbi Rabbi Boruch and Batsheva Oberlander, head Shluchim to Hungary, will be sitting Shiva in their home in Budapest.
Philadelphia, PA — After a year and a half of running programs out of rented space at Center City universities, Chabad House for Students of the Arts is opening its own exhibition and programming space on South Street.
Didan Notzach! Washington state senate bill 6068 – authorizing religious objection to an autopsy – was approved; the vote was 48 to 2 in favor. The bill was brought to the chamber by a number of Jewish organizations, including Shliach to Tacoma Rabbi Zalman Heber, after the tragic story of Dr. Brian Grobois.
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