New York Jews getting ready for Purim skipped the costume parties Sunday to focus on giving back. Doing extra charity is a must during the two-day celebration that begins Wednesday night and honors Queen Esther for saving the ancient Persian Jews from slaughter.
The 5th graders of the Lubavitch Boys’ school in London enjoyed a wonderful shabbaton last week, which the class earned with their ‘davening points.’
Physicist Cyril Domb, whose advancement of theoretical physics led to new understandings of everyday phenomena, passed away last week at the age of 91. A mathematical prodigy, he also was an accomplished Talmudic scholar and authored dozens of articles on the interplay between the Torah and science, in addition to several Jewish scholarly works.
Congressman Bob Turner (R-Brooklyn), who replaced disgraced Congressman Anthony Wiener in a special election last year, introduced yesterday the Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2012. If passed, the bill will provide a tax credit of up to 5,000 dollars for families who send their children to private schools and eliminate “double taxation” on parents who send their children to non-public schools.
Hundreds participated in the international Siyum Harambam, which took place in Crown Heights on Thursday evening, the 7th of Adar.
Tonight, March 4 at 8:00pm, there will be a webcast to unite Jews all over the world in the celebration of the 30th siyum for three-chapters-a-day and the 10th siyum for one-chapter-a-day.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher yungerman is lucky to be alive after nearly getting mowed down by a car which was attempting to flee the scene of an accident – missing him by just inches.
With exclamations of “Shabbat Shalom” circling, more than 500 Jewish students gathered to celebrate a traditional dinner together at the University of Georgia.
A two-week old boy died at a Brooklyn hospital after contracting herpes through a religious circumcision ritual that ignited controversy in 2005 after another infant died, the Daily News has learned.
Shmully (ben R’ Yitzchak) Holtzman (Crown Heights) and Shira Porat (Jerusalem, Israel)
“Our Father Who art in Heaven, Protector and Redeemer of Israel, bless Thou the State of Israel which marks the dawn of our deliverance,” the prayer leader, a pro-Israel lobbyist on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, recited in Hebrew Saturday morning in the Marriott Hotel’s Orchard Room, which was temporarily turned into a synagogue.
Uri and Chanie (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
While there are many Chinese Auctions benefiting important and worthy organizations, the mychabadauction.com auction benefiting Chabad of Hunterdon County’s scholarship fund – to be held this Sunday – has a twist; a prize package that includes “a Luxury Private Jet Getaway for six people”.
Arye and Chana (nee Lancry) Sufrin (London, UK)
In honor of the 30th completion of the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, TorahCafe.com is proud to host a unique web celebration of this momentous occasion hosted by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
The Rebbe of Karlin-Stolin, Rabbi Boruch Shochet, visited the Lubavitch Shul in Baku, Azerbaijan last night. The Shul, led by Rabbi Shneor Segal, was recently featured in international news headlines due to a foiled Iranian terror plot against the Shliach and the local institutions. The pictures are unclear and badly focused due to the fact that the Karliner Rebbe goes through much effort to avoid being photographed.
This Sunday, hundreds of men and women attended a grand Siyum HaRambam celebration in Melbourne, Australia, at Yeshivah Centre’s Werdiger Hall. The event marked the completion of the 30th cycle of three daily chapters of Rambam, and the 10th cycle of one daily chapter of Rambam.
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