Australian Jewish leaders praised the country’s Labor government for retaining an exemption for the kosher slaughter of animals.
This video appeared on YouTube on a channel titled “Piano Across America.” The man who uploaded the video (apparently the pianist) wrote, “Definitely one of the highlights of playing at Union Square. I met one of those guys in San Francisco and he came up to me and said hello. I decided to play Hava Nagila and we all came together in celebration of the holiday Sukkot.”
Israeli scientists have bred a featherless chicken. Although featherless chickens look quite terrifying, poultry farm owners in many countries have shown keen interest in the birds because they will not need to be plucked.
On its website, Point Lobos is described as the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. That and more is what we found on a recent visit to this Northern California nature reserve.
City residents may soon get the exclusive right to park on the streets where they live.
Moshe Teldon (Commack, NY) and Esther Leah Flinkenstein (Wilmette, IL)
Dovid and Chavi (nee Greenberg) Russ (Montreal, Canada)
Excitement filled the air as approximately 60 enthusiastic children, parents, grandparents and teachers celebrated the grand opening of the first Jewish childhood education center in Vladimir Lenin’s birthplace of Ulyanovsk, Russia.
Republican presidential candidate, Former Utah governor and U.S. Ambassador to China Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., visited the resting place of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, in Cambria Heights, N.Y.
Brooklyn hipsters have found a new way of filling their bellies that would probably turn your stomach — rummaging for and then feasting on expensive food that grocery chains toss in the trash.
Women count on La-Tweez products to pluck arches to perfection, but at Guangzhou’s mega-China Import and Export Canton Fair, it was La Tweez’s CEO Eran Israel who raised his eyebrows as he saw hundreds drawn to Chabad’s services there.
Snoop Dog’s classic rap song “Gin and Juice,” defined by lyrics like “My mind on my money and my money on my mind,” doesn’t exactly aim for a spiritual or religious message. But Reuben Formey’s version, “Money on Your Mind,” is an expression of giving to those in need.
Levi (ben Yehoshua) Laine (Crown Heights) and Mushky Hecht (Orange, CT)
Beis Rivka, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave] at 8:30 PM
After month of extra and needless waiting, the paving of Kingston Avenue finally began this Monday morning; the work commenced from Empire Blvd. until President St., and is expected to continue throughout the day tomorrow.
The following is a letter that I have written to Southwest Airlines about a major kashrus blunder that one of flight attendants did and then went on to brag about. I know that there are no kashrus symbols on Airplane coffee pots, but I felt that since some people think only coffee goes into coffee pots, it should be known that that is false.
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