The 52-year-old New Brunswick man arrested in a window-smashing spree at Jewish businesses and institutions in Highland Park and New Brunswick is himself Jewish.
A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the “Taste of Mexico” restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to the town’s makeshift mosque on Main Street.
Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario honoured MP Jason Kenney with the Distinguished Public Service Award, at their 33rd annual dinner, Sunday, Dec. 4.
About a year ago, a Chabad Rabbi got in touch with me and asked if I would agree to meet a senior Jewish PETA executive named Philip Schein. Philip’s wife Hannah, who also works for PETA, is in charge of PETA undercover investigations.
Shlomo Mehlman (Silver Spring, MD) and Michal Shaffer (Crown Heights)
Beis Yaakov Ohel Sarah isn’t the biggest girls’ school in all of Brooklyn, and that’s a status they prefer to keep. The waiting list to enroll a new student into their Chabad Mosad in the heart of Midwood attests to their tight-ship operation.
Last week, the Ohr Avner Chabad Educational Center in Baku hosted a visit by the Israeli Minister of Welfare and Social Services Moshe Kahlon. The Minister was accompanied by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Michael Lavon-Lotem.
While walking through the supermarket recently I found the laundry detergent, shampoo, body soap, and even paper towels, that I have been using for years are now “new and improved.”
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An early morning Jewish commuter was mortified to discover hate filled profanities on a waiting bench in the Kinston Ave. subway station. The vile hate messages are directed at Jews in general, and single out in particular Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and convicted scammer Bernie Madoff. The Graffiti still has not been removed as of this evening.
An e-crime wave is sweeping the city with iPads, smartphones and other pricey devices now more popular with Big Apple thieves than even cold hard cash, cops say.
Today, the 10th of Kislev is marked by Chabad Chassidim all over the world in celebration of the release of Rabbi Dovber of Lubavitch from the Czar’s prison in 1826. Fifty six years later, in 1882, an anti-religious newspaper called ‘Hamelitz,’ published by the Haskalah/Zionist movement, “described” how the Chassidim in the Lithuanian town of Shvintzan conducted themselves throughout the Yud Kislev celebrations.
Children make creative Chanukah Menorahs at Chabad of Orange County, headed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
The rabbi for Cambridge has appeared in court for using his mobile phone while driving. The spiritual leader who works at Addenbrooke’s and Papworth hospitals as well as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before magistrates.
Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown proclaimed Sunday, Dec. 4 “Chabad of Southside Day” to coincide with the Florida organization’s fifth anniversary celebration.
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