With the launch of the first Russian language Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course February 6, Jews in formerly communist countries will join the ranks of their brethren everywhere else as they participate in a richer Jewish life experience with the benefit of advanced learning opportunities.
The Russian Jewish Congress announced on Tuesday that it had sent a letter of protest to regional officials over the decision to replace a memorial plaque to Jews killed in the Holocaust with one that mentions only “peaceful citizens of Rostov-on-Don and Soviet prisoners of war.”
On the 26th of November 2008 the world recoiled in horror as the infamous Mumbai terror attacks unfolded. Three days later, unthinkable death and devastation remained. For the Jewish community the brutal murder of Chabad emissaries Gabi and Rivka Holtzberg highlighted the vulnerability of many that stand at the forefront of community work in remote corners of the globe.
In this video from the National Jewish Retreat, Mrs. Anita Schorr, a Holocaust survivor and recent Baal Teshuva, relates her very moving and emotional story.
Eli and Rochele Raskin (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 615 Lefferts Ave.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Before he became a U.S. senator, Rudy Boschwitz moved to Minnesota and opened a family business in 1963. By that time, Rabbi Moshe and Mindy Feller were already there.
The above picture captures a New York City street that was recently repaved. It describes pretty accurately what is wrong with America’s educational system.
Rabbi Mordechai Meir Bryski, a long-time educator and Brooklyn community activist passed away on January 8, 2012. He was 88.
Bochurim who spend each Wednesday teaching Torah to Jewish children who learn in New York City’s Public schools met Tuesday, the 29th of Teves, for a Lunch in Getzel’s Shul.
In shul the other day, a friend approached me about a mutual acquaintance – an intelligent and good-natured young man who had visibly left the folds of our community.
Jewish residents of Buenos Aires partied the night away in the Argentine capital in a mass show of support for Chabad-Lubavitch of Puerto Madero.
Police have made two arrests in the theft of the Sefer Torah from the Monticello Chabad House a few weeks ago.
Each week, more than 600 people across the world enjoy a shiur over the phone with a specially selected chavrusa. While the matches are made based on study preferences, the participants often form close friendships. says Abe, a participant from Charlotte, NC, “My Chavrusa is warm, knowledgeable and has a heart of gold. Each phone call with him is an experience for itself.”
Mayor Bloomberg said he was “adamantly” against a City Council bill to ban the Sanitation Department from slapping the pesky, fluorescent stickers on cars that block street-sweeping trucks.
More than 65 years after the end of World War II, anti-Semitism remains a powerful force in Germany, according to a report prepared by an independent commission appointed by the Bundestag (parliament).
The former Three Bears restaurant, a town landmark since the 1900s, is poised to change hands and become the new home of Chabad Lubavitch of Westport, CT.
