You needn’t look far for evidence of great rifts in Israeli society, fractures whose beginnings stretch back generations.
Various non-mainstream Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) communities in Israel and in the U.S. are clashing with western values embraced by less religious Jews. Daily reports are breaking out of Haredi sects imposing forced gender segregation on buses, spitting on women in the streets who are deemed immodest and rioting against anyone who is perceived different.
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya Elisha (Crown Heights)
Dovid and Chana Slava (nee Eidelman) Perl (Crown Heights)
Chaim and Shaina (nee Turk) Lipsh (Crown Heights)
Last year it was livery cabs, and this year it could be fingerprinting for food stamps.
The words of the song “Wherever you go there’s always someone Jewish” by Rabbi Larry Milder, have stuck with me since I first heard them as a child. I was reminded of them over winter break when I connected with a Jewish community during my recent trip to Vietnam.
Eliezer Tatuk (Maimi, FL) and Chaya Mushka Elbaz (Paris, France)
Lechaim tonight, Wednesday 510 Crown Street #3C
[between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Ari Levy (Flatbush) and Rochel Ahern (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Motzei Shabbos at 1498 President St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
In this 13th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how she and her husband Reb Levik managed to acquire bread for Shabbos at the last moment.
As the nation’s political attention pivots from Iowa to New Hampshire this week, Rabbi Levi Krinsky, the emissary of Chabad Lubavitch in Manchester for the past 22 years, is feeling a little lonely.
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.” (Proverbs 3:17)
King Solomon, the wisest of all men, thus defined and described the ways of Torah. These words are as true today as they were in his day.
As today, 9th of Teves, marks the end of Shiva for Rabbi Hirshel Chitrik, Oholei Torah presents a gallery of pictures spanning over 50 years of Rabbi Chitrik’s involvement with the Mossad.
Sholom Ber Kapluschnik (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Miriam Minsky (Crown Heights)
L’chaim tonight, Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
The Rabbinical College Of America – Chabad Lubavitch HQ of New Jersey, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Herson, has been sending student representatives to Rutgers University to do outreach work with the over 7,000 Jewish students on campus.
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