What a long, strange trip it’s been. A former Deadhead couple who became Hasidic Jews are set to open what will be the only synagogue on the Bowery — a stone’s throw from where the Ramones’ favorite punk club, CBGB, once stood.
Menachem Mendel Oberlander, of blessed memory, had been ill for as long as I had known him. My brother knew him before he got sick, but I did not. Mendel was the son of Rabbi Baruch and Batsheva Oberlander, head Chabad representatives to Hungary. A bright and questioning child, he was fluent in four languages.
Hundrends of woman and girls turned out all afternoon, and into the late Sunday evening, for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s 8th annual auction. The program took place in Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway, where there was the viewing, a light comedy show and lots of food and drink.
In New Delhi, India on Monday, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was injured when a bomb attached to her car exploded while she was driving. Just after dropping her kids off to school, according to Israeli media accounts, the bomb detonated. She was able to complete the drive to the Israeli Embassy where she was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
Aleph hosted a military weekend for 75 U.S. military personnel and their spouses as part of its 5th Annual “Military Training Conference and Shabbaton.”
Inexplicably, Facebook has managed to do what Ahmadinejad can only dream of: wipe Israel off the map.
A Jewish man was left in critical condition after being hit by a car on Eastern Parkway; witnesses say that the driver didn’t bother stopping – instead, he just sped away.
Last weekend, the Aliya Institute enjoyed its 10th annual ski Shabbaton. Thanks to the Eichhorn family, who generously give their vacation home every year for the trip, it was another amazingly beautiful and inspirational Shabbos.
As part of their training in practical Rabbonus, the students of Yeshiva Beis Menachem of Manalapan visited a local Mikvah.
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these unique photos of the Rebbe sharing a few words with Rabbi Simcha Elberg in the mid 1970s.
Yossi Baron celebrated his 3rd birthday and Upshernish on Tu B’shvat. The Mayor of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Norman Edelcup, sent Yossi’s parents, Rabbi Yisrael and Toby Baron, a special certificate to acknowledge and honor Yossi on this special milestone.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 13, for Lincoln’s Birthday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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.
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