The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia would like built no less than five synagogues in Moscow, Federation President Alexander Boroda told a Monday press conference, during a break of the Federation congress.
In a world where large families are not unheard of, it’s not uncommon for a student at a Chabad-Lubavitch run yeshiva to find a cousin or two among his peers. But at the Tomchei Temimim post-high school rabbinical school in Kiryat Gat, Israel, a full 10 percent of the student body and a teacher recently learned they were all related.
The Jewish Business Network of Southwest Florida is making a comeback by popular demand.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A UPS driver was robbed at gunpoint earlier today by a fearless and calculating bandit, who ditched his firearm and later went back to recover it. The robbery took place in broad daylight right near Kingston Avenue, and police ignored crucial information provided by Shomrim.
The 7th and 8th Grade students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Montreal who are part of the Chayolei Beis Dovid Program, headed by Rabbi Yisroel Menkes, traveled to New York for Yud Shvat.
Surveillance video obtained by CrownHeights.info captured the moments leading up to the horrific crash on Empire Boulevard today, and clearly reveales who was at fault.
At sunrise on Tuesday, December 13, Reggae Star Matisyahu posted a photo of himself clean-shaven, tweeting the following phrase from his 2009 hit album Light:
Rabbi Yoram Ulman was elected the president of the Rabbinic Council of New South Wales last week, and he has some big plans for the organisation.
Stones supposedly taken from the Kotel in Jerusalem are being offered for sale on internet auction site eBay, as talismans for good luck and health.
Crown Heights [CHI] — A pickup truck and a sedan collided mid intersection on Empire Boulevard, sending one through the front of the liquor store and the other up onto the sidewalk. One pedestrian, an elderly woman was hit and critically injured.
Just so you know: Canned sardines are kosher. This judgment would appear to be definitive, based on DNA evidence. Genetic testing by a parasitologist at the American Museum of Natural History has confirmed that the recent discovery of small worms in canned sardines does not render them treyf, or unkosher. It may render them unappetizing, but that judgment is up to the consumer.
The father of the Twins from France dances in 770 after Shachris. He is in New York for Yisroel’s wedding, which will take place tonight in the Razag Ballroom.
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.
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