Last week, the Ohr Avner Chabad Educational Center in Baku hosted a visit by the Israeli Minister of Welfare and Social Services Moshe Kahlon. The Minister was accompanied by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to the Republic of Azerbaijan, Michael Lavon-Lotem.
While walking through the supermarket recently I found the laundry detergent, shampoo, body soap, and even paper towels, that I have been using for years are now “new and improved.”
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An early morning Jewish commuter was mortified to discover hate filled profanities on a waiting bench in the Kinston Ave. subway station. The vile hate messages are directed at Jews in general, and single out in particular Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and convicted scammer Bernie Madoff. The Graffiti still has not been removed as of this evening.
An e-crime wave is sweeping the city with iPads, smartphones and other pricey devices now more popular with Big Apple thieves than even cold hard cash, cops say.
Today, the 10th of Kislev is marked by Chabad Chassidim all over the world in celebration of the release of Rabbi Dovber of Lubavitch from the Czar’s prison in 1826. Fifty six years later, in 1882, an anti-religious newspaper called ‘Hamelitz,’ published by the Haskalah/Zionist movement, “described” how the Chassidim in the Lithuanian town of Shvintzan conducted themselves throughout the Yud Kislev celebrations.
Children make creative Chanukah Menorahs at Chabad of Orange County, headed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
The rabbi for Cambridge has appeared in court for using his mobile phone while driving. The spiritual leader who works at Addenbrooke’s and Papworth hospitals as well as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before magistrates.
Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown proclaimed Sunday, Dec. 4 “Chabad of Southside Day” to coincide with the Florida organization’s fifth anniversary celebration.
The large dreidel on the front lawn of the Chabad Jewish Center on Valley Road in the Basking Ridge section has been touched up just in time for Hanukkah.
Eli (Ben R’ Shmuel) Labkowski (Brunoy, France) and Chaya (Bas R’ Yitzchok Dovid) Rosenberg (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim Wednesday night at Lubavicher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
If all languages are able to convey complex layers of meaning, why is Hebrew referred to as the Holy tongue?
The members of a Neo-Nazi terrorist cell suspected of slaying at least 10 people in Germany between 2000 and 2010 sold an anti-Semitic version of the board game ‘Monopoly’ in order to finance their murderous activities, authorities said.
Mendy and Chavie (nee Kalmanson) Schechter (New Orleans, LA)
Chaim Leib and Chanie Hildeshaim (Toronto, Canada)
1,041 local area seniors – most of whom are low-income and frail – were served traditional Thanksgiving meals with all the trimmings this year by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, it was announced by Rabbi Moshe Wiener, JCCGCI’s Executive Director.
