Picture of the Day: NYDN Photographer Gets Strapped

It’s not every day that you get to see over 4000 rabbis get together for one photo, and naturally, many photographers are drawn to this sight. One photographer, David Handschuh, who works for the NY Daily News, was exposed to one of the true missions of Shluchim when Rabbi Raleigh Resnick, Shliach to Pleasanton, CA, asked him “excuse me sir, are you Jewish?” and proceeded to lay Tefillin with him.

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NYC Jewish Women Want to Join Hatzalah

CBS New York

Yocheved Lerner-Miller is one of the women pushing to join the Hatzalah ambulance service.

Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives. They don’t sit next to men on buses or even at weddings. They have separate swimming hours at indoor pools. But for an emergency birth, Orthodox Jewish women will usually turn to the all-male volunteer ambulance corps known as Hatzolah.

First Signs of Chanukah Emerge in Australia

J-Wire

Rabbi Pinchus Feldman lights the Menorah in the presence of Premier Barry O’Farrell.

The traditional lighting of the Menorah took place in the NSW State Parliament in Sydney last night. Although the latkes have yet to make their appearance, politicians and State identities were offered platefuls of doughnuts as they entered the function room in Parliament House.